From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 09:14:18 -0500

I know that ILL is not free for librarians. The last time I looked
into this I came across estimates of $35 per loan. If there is more
recent information on this, I would like to know. This is ILL for
print books, of course; ILL for ebooks would be a very different
matter, one which may be constrained by copyright law. I have no
expertise on that matter.

My point about ILL and DDA/PDA is that DDA for electronic books is
likely to displace ILL for print (for those books that appear in DDA
aggregrations). A short-term loan may cost less than the $35 for print
ILL. Publishers are likely to support this because they receive no
income from ILL, but receive revenue from DDA (which is shared with
the aggregator and author). It's a win-win, is it not? Libraries have
lower costs, publishers receive income. The trucking companies lose
out.

Joe Esposito



On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 11:11 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> From: "Gonzales, Rhonda L" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 11:28:40 -0700
>
> Joe,
>
> I always appreciate your comments. But I did want to interject that
> ILL is not free for libraries. There is a fairly high cost per volume
> to conduct ILL transactions, both borrowing and lending. Libraries
> absorb the cost of lending so that we can reap the benefits of
> borrowing - that's what makes the system work. We choose to purchase
> many print books that we could obtain for patrons via ILL both as a
> convenience for our constituents as well as a cost savings for
> ourselves. I assume that we would do this for ebooks as well, even if
> we could get them via ILL from another library.
>
> Best regards,
> Rhonda Gonzales
> Dean of Library Services, Colorado State University-Pueblo
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