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From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 21:25:20 -0500

All of those.


> From: Devin Savage <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 08:07:53 -0500
>
> Asking from a position of ignorance here, so I know nothing of this
> service, but.... Better than ILL in what way? Is it more reliable,
> more accurate, quicker, cheaper (for now)?
>
> Devin
>
> Devin Savage
> Assistant Dean for Assessment and Scholarly Communication
> Paul V. Galvin Library
> Illinois Institute of Technology
> 35 West 33rd Street
> Chicago, IL  60616
>
> On Thursday, June 16, 2016, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>  From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
>>  Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:27:44 -0500
>>
>>  The CCC's GetItNow service is already better than ILL, but it covers
>>  only articles so far.
>>
>>  Sandy Thatcher
>>
>>
>>  > From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
>>  > Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:57:51 -0700
>>  >
>>  > Starting in my own condo building but encouraged by the New York Times
>>  >
>>  > (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/realestate/the-doormans-dilemma-what-to-do-with-all-those-packages.html?emc=eta1)
>>  >
>>  > I observe a national trend in package room crises.  Too many boxes
>>  > being delivered to residences and even offices and no place to put
>>  > them.  (If you live in an apartment building and they accept your
>>  > packages for you, look to see where they are stashing them:  it can
>>  > get ugly.)
>>  >
>>  > So then Amazon appears.  Amazon lockers and now a growing stream I've
>>  > seen mentioned on other lists of Amazon "stores" esp. on campuses:
>>  >
>>  > http://www.berkeleyside.com/2016/01/15/amazon-opens-new-store-on-uc-berkeley-campus/
>>  >
>>  > The campus issue seems particularly to be that students don't care
>>  > about their US Mail any more and are happy to walk a good ways to a
>>  > central location to pick that up, but they too want their packages
>>  > where they live.
>>  >
>>  > So there's Mr. Amazon, looking to solve the problem.  The "stores"
>>  > don't stock merchandise in the traditional way and are indeed more
>>  > package pickup with a little customer service.  Nose of camel under
>>  > tent?  Well, leaving aside the contracts many campuses have with the
>>  > one or two big vendors left in the "bookstore" business but that
>>  > Amazon could work to supplant, when would we decide that Amazon
>>  > print-on-demand is a better solution to need-it-now than ILL? Some of
>>  > the time?  Lots of the time?  How much camel will wind up inside the
>>  > tent?
>>  >
>>  > Jim O'Donnell
>>  > Arizona State University

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