Longshots #197 Will Digitization Damper Physical Delivery or Send it Skyrocketing?
Sarah talks with Valerie Horton, executive director of the Colorado Library Consortium, about her groundbreaking work in the field of library physical delivery. Valerie talks about the results of a recent national survey on delivery practices, including outsourcing, the motivation for the creation of the Moving Mountains Project, and her prediction that the digitization of books will cause delivery stats to skyrocket. Valerie also talks about her new book, co-authored with Bruce Smith, titled Moving Materials: Physical Delivery in Libraries. [Length: 16:50]

Valerie Horton  delivery  library delivery  USPS  United State Postal Service  Colorado Library Consortium  Bruce Smith  Moving Mountains Project  Google Scholar

PLAY:

Longshots #196 The Benefits Culled From a Nor'easter Delivery Crisis
Sarah talks with Dean Corner, Director of Reader Services and Information, Maine State Library, about the day their statewide delivery service dried up. When staff of the delivery vendor for Maine learned their contract had not been renewed, they started jumping ship, seriously impacting physical delivery. The happy result of what became a national media story was the increased awareness of a highly used library service that many people did not even know existed. [Length: 16:44]

None.

PLAY: