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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