Longshots #197 Will Digitization Damper Physical Delivery or Send it Skyrocketing?

November 23, 2009

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.

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