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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">​​</div>Elena Maceviciute <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">​och </div>Tom Wilson<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">​ ställer frågan​ och undrar var pengarna ska komma ifrån:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div>Everywhere, the e-book accounts for only a small proportion of total loans from public libraries – in Sweden it is about 2% – and yet the loan charges in Sweden result in budgetary problems for libraries. Any rational person would ask, What is the cost/benefit relationship for the expenditure? But librarians are driven by an ideology that says that, if a medium exists, it must be made available – and this ideology is now enshrined the Swedish library law. Neither law, nor government, however, say anything about where the money comes from to pay for the service.<div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">​<a href="https://projectebooks.wordpress.com/2016/08/06/irrationality-rules/">https://projectebooks.wordpress.com/2016/08/06/irrationality-rules/</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">​Jan</div><br><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Jan Szczepański<br>F.d Förste bibliotekarie och chef för f.d Avdelningen för humaniora,<br>vid f.d. Centralbiblioteket, Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek<br>E-post: <a href="mailto:<a href="/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A3%3Dind1608%26L%3DBIBLIST%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D88062%26B%3D--001a113ed17e3c0cef053967a76a%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DUTF-8" >[log in to unmask]</a>" target="_blank"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A3%3Dind1608%26L%3DBIBLIST%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D88062%26B%3D--001a113ed17e3c0cef053967a76a%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DUTF-8%26XSS%3D3" >[log in to unmask]</a></a></div>
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