Librarianth (@librarianth.bsky.social)

Buying and Managing E-Books for Acquisitions Librarians. Part 5 – The Wider Sector In our previous post, we dove into the somewhat surreal world of library analytics, where a turnaway is the digital equivalent of a student lamenting access in the stacks, and marketing is the art of promising a party where there’s only one chair. We’ve looked at the metadata, the licences, and the spreadsheets. Now,, it's time to look more widely, because as much as we’d like to believe our acquisitions strategies exist in a vacuum of local need and budget, the reality is that we are small fish in a very large, occasionally predatory, corporate ocean. http://librarianth.home.blog/2026/03/23/buying-and-managing-e-books-for-acquisitions-librarians-part-5-the-wider-sector/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social