One of the most confusing impacts of the surge in access to e-books is whether academic library interests should be more or less bound together with public libraries. The issue has a wide range of ramifications, from acquisitions, to collections, to the responses to the shifting commercial marketplace. At conferences that I have attended with mixed audiences, each of these “together” and “apart” strands surface; I suspect both are correct, but more through overlay than union.
Full article in Publisher’s Weekly
I’d like to see documentation…
…for Brantley’s assertion that public libraries, at least in the US, have seen actual declines in print circulation. I don’t remember hearing about such declines. The UK is, to be sure, a different story.