Economic realities in optimizing library materials access Available to Purchase

This paper sets out to provide an overview of the economic realities in optimizing library materials access.

Uses a discussion and examples to illustrate the difficulties in optimizing library materials access.

Provides a catalyst for librarians to consider their collections' optimality.

Hopefully, the example will spark still more attention to how public, university, special and school libraries, along with local, state and federal governments, can cooperate to optimize access both to books and to ubiquitous information and knowledge in a time of falling communication prices.