From: "Kearney, Richard" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 13:38:36 +0000 Actually, I've already seen a number of publisher short-term loan fees that are in excess of $35, and there is no guarantee that those costs will be less than current print ILL costs in either the short- or long-term. But not every publisher currently agrees to short-term loans, and this may not be achieved even after additional years of negotiation. Given the role that it plays for libraries and users, a role that has nothing to do with format, it is difficult to see how inter-library loan (or whatever one wishes to call its functional equivalent in the networked environment) would be surrendered by libraries. So it is not surprising that any major initiative on eBook futures should include the topic within the scope of its concerns. *************************************************** Richard Kearney Electronic Resources Librarian David and Lorraine Cheng Library William Paterson University 300 Pompton Road Wayne, NJ 07470 [log in to unmask] *************************************************** ________________________________________ 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: > > 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 > [log in to unmask]