I must admit my mind is reeling after completing the book review assignment and contemplating Lesk, Willinsky, and Baker for the last week. Clearly they all have a bias and are leading the library community to their prescribed solution. Yet, where do I stand? I seem to uphold the archivist perspective in I'm dead set against throwing away original sources once they are available on microfilm or in a digitized format. On the other hand I see clearly the pitfalls of ongoing archival and the budgetary restraints that places on libraries, particularly small county libraries or rural school libraries. Open access sounds good and I can see several real wins for libraries and collectors of information but big business and copyright protection are deterrents to true open access. Surly, there's a solution based on shared resources and bringing the businesses that support digitization into a consortium with libraries.
What do you think?
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