UC Davis Blaisdell Medical Library
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From: "Jim O'Donnell" <
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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 18:35:51 -0700
Amazon v. ILL: it's a cost question and Amazon will have advantages of scale. Right now, in twelve cities, they're doing same day delivery on a lot of prime items -- it will be a while before we can compete at all on that, and meanwhile prosperous students who need this *now* for a paper they're writing will make a choice. (I think that is an emerging problem for us in libraries: they are used to getting crappy information instantly on the net and better information
today/tomorrow/48 hours from Amazon, so when we tell them our ILL commitment time is 2-5 days, they look at us funny and think of their
options.)
Jim O'Donnell
ASU