Jay Starratt
Dean of Libraries,
Washington State University
The Higher Education Library: What Would $2 Billion Buy?
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 | 11:30AM–12:20PM | Meeting Room 601
Session Type:
E09 Hybrid
Annually, U.S. academic libraries spend $2 billion dollars to purchase materials. The escalating cost of information and the limiting rights that govern digital licenses have crippled the dissemination of scholarship. The creation of a universal digital academic library would shift control of scholarly goods back to higher education institutions.
