Bibliotheken sagen, Budgetvorschlag zur Beendigung des Versandprogramms wäre „katastrophal“
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/canada-post-libraries-9.7013972
Bibliotheken sagen, Budgetvorschlag zur Beendigung des Versandprogramms wäre „katastrophal“
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/canada-post-libraries-9.7013972
3 Kommentare
The level of foresight and planning with these guys is off the charts. Yeah lets cut and cut. Saves money! Yay! Oh wait… now it costs a fortune on some other line item? Oops.
This will have a huge impact. Shipping physical books is VERY expensive at normal rates as anyone currently looking to send a parcel to the kids or parents this week knows full well.
Budgets are already stretched. E-books are not a solution because their costs are even higher and licensing makes the process very restrictive which further reduces access to information. Also, many of these physical items are simply not available in electronic form so even if the libraries were granted a bottomless pot of cash it wouldn’t matter.
If it’s something that should be subsidized, fine. Books are important. But how exactly it should be subsidized doesn’t seem that obvious to me, and there seems to be a lot of hand-wringing about this particular system that isn’t justified, especially in light of the fact that everyone is saying the subsidized shipping is staying as-is. This just feels like opportunistic maneuvering with an aim to entrench, not actually a problem that has to be solved.
The bigger issue IMHO is who pays for the shipping. At the moment at least in Toronto it’s TPL that pays to buy the books *and* TPL that pays to ship them to a borrowing library. That’s insane. Of course it makes sense for smaller libraries to be able to borrow a book from a larger library, but the fact that the larger library would pay any of the costs of doing so is absurd.
This seems like something a few voters really, really like, but has a low fiscal impact. Why is it worth repealing?