I have two statements that require "authoritative sources" to support them. With mild shame, I ask if anyone has good candidates that they know off the top of their head, since I am used to them as just common knowledge. (Alternatively, if you disagree with one or both, that would be helpful too.)
"Defining the significance of local ownership and the meaning of local ownership in an environment of hosted content and services adds more issues to be addressed, especially given the increasing reliance on peer-reviewed journal articles in undergraduate research."
- Mark Kille
"An uncontroversial example of this shift is the radical increase of library acquisitions budgets dedicated to journal and database subscriptions, relative to the budget allocated for scholarly monographs and other books. (The shift itself is controversial, but its existence is not.) University presses and other publishers are exploring subscription models for long-format texts that libraries used to purchase."
- Mark Kille
Ithaka report for the 2nd one? http://www.ithaka.org/ithaka-...
- Hedgehog
And, of course, the second quote should have the word "academic" in front of "library," but is fairly typical of ac-lib literature in assuming that the only libraries that matter are academic libraries. Irrelevant to your quest, I know.
- walt crawford
Walt, I suspect that the beginning of Mark's paper firmly establishes an academic-library context. Not so, Mark?
- RepoRat
Could be. The sheer number of statements from ac. libn's that assume that all libraries are academic libraries makes me sensitive on this point. Sorry.
- walt crawford
We're all academic, we're all public, and we're all special... so that means nobody is (if one were to riff off of IncrediBoy/Syndrome from the Incredibles)
- Aaron the Librarian
Yeah, it's very explicitly only about academic libraries. Academic libraries supporting undergraduate degree programs, even more narrowly. Thanks for the suggestions!
- Mark Kille