New Services Are Diluting And Hurting Academic Librarianship

May 9, 2011 - 9:22am — Blake

Bike Sharing Comes to the Academic Library

"The problem with offering great coffee, comfy chairs, and bicycle rentals to the library is not that these amenities are unwelcome — indeed, they are appreciated by most patrons. The problem is that they start diluting the brand of the academic library. And a dilution of the academic library brand may make it more difficult to justify hiring, retaining, and compensating highly trained academic staff."