Rick Anderson wrote:
>> But I want to point out that, generally, our online
>> journal content is available to users 24/7 from wherever they have internet
>> access.  Our print journal content is available to them only when the library
>> is open, and they then still have to trek to the library and find the stuff
>> they are looking for.
>>
>
> Because I know you guys aren't tired of hearing from me yet, heh heh, let me
> just chime in quickly and amplify Buddy's point.  I think we all tend to
> assume that print is more reliable than online, because it doesn't (usually)
> disappear spontaneously the way online access can.  But it's easy to forget
> that print does go "down" regularly, and constantly.  If your library is
> open 18 hours a day, 7 days per week, then your print collection has a 25%
> downtime rate -- which we would never tolerate in an online product.
>
> Of course, that doesn't take into account the fact that print _does_
> sometimes disappear spontaneously, nor the fact that if another patrons gets
> to the print copy before you, then access to that copy is "down" for you
> just as effectively as if the library were closed.
>
>
Or if someone rips out the article or steals the issue you want....

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Tina Kussey
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Bailey/Howe Library
University of Vermont
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