The User-Driven Purchase Giveaway Library
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2010-09
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EDUCAUSE Review is available on line at: http://www.educause.edu/er/archives. The original article may be found at: http://www.educause.edu/library/ERM1057.
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This article is an exercise in imagination. It is an exploration of a radical alternative to longstanding academic library practice. Technology offers new alternatives; in what follows we will explore one alternative way in which these technologies can be applied. The proposal is that rather than purchasing books, cataloging them, and putting them on shelves in anticipation of use, libraries could only purchase and produce a book when a user wished to use it, and that rather than loaning the user the book, the library would give it away to the user to keep.
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Lewis, David W., "The User-Driven Purchase Giveaway Library," EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 45, no. 5 (September/October 2010): 10–11
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