Barbara Franchetto has seen budget cuts before over her three decades at the Southern Ontario Library Service, of which she’s CEO. One immediate casualty, however, has been interlibrary loans. Canada Post delivers interlibrary loans for all OLSN and further-afield SOLS libraries, at a hugely discounted rate: Shipping and returning a 1.28-kg package costs just $1.38. OLSN libraries, meanwhile, shipped nearly 26,000 items and received nearly 30,000. Interlibrary loans will certainly become less important over time, as more and more of the world’s texts are digitized and broadband access improves.

Source: National Post April 25, 2019 20:28 UTC