5¢/patron, $1/student
From now on if a public library or a college or university wants to buy memberships for everyone in a community, it's 5¢/patron, $1/student.(see Thingology)
posted by Tim at 1:10 AM
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
From now on if a public library or a college or university wants to buy memberships for everyone in a community, it's 5¢/patron, $1/student.(see Thingology)
9 Comments:
Tim, I see where you're going, and I urge you to reconsider point 1. You're cutting off a substantial part of the schools and the part that needs it the most. One third of our students are distance learners and probably a quarter of the upper phase students are off campus for their dissertation work. Validate them as students, certainly, but leave the distribution methodology to the schools.
Hey. Actually, I was using "patron" in opposition to "student." A bad distinction. So, I think I'm okay if a university wants to give them out by phone, email, etc. But they need to validate against a school account, or the first all-school plan we make will be the last account we sell.
Our library staff is scrupulous about obeying the license requirements for the services (alumni don't get access to everything on some of the plans), so I just had this vision of schools that could use LibraryThing not going any further than that limit.
I'm curious... I couldn't imagine any of my libraries providing such memberships to patrons or students - but I gather some libraries are or the offer wouldn't be made.
Why do libraries do so, and what is the value to LibraryThing?
This is interesting, I hope this offer will encourage reading...
thank you very much very very nıce.........
On behalf of the University of California system...
Tim,
Wouldn't this also be a reasonable pricing model for annual ILS integration as well? I'd define active in my public library as used/issued in the last two years.
cmoss
Actually, I think it's high for that--that would be $2500 for 50,000 active cards. Maybe that points out that it's high generally.
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