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<p>[QUOTE="Voulgaroktonou, post: 3694956, member: 84047"]Dear Doug et al., In my field (Classics), I think we will continue to use printed books for some time to come. Electronic access to books in our area remains small, although it is growing. I'd say perhaps 5% of our materials are available electronically, although the numbers do increase. Although we subscribe to electronic journals when possible, we continue to keep our print subscriptions, for the holdings of many of our long running journals go back to their initial volume, published often over 100 years ago. For example, we have from the Revue Numismatique the first volume: ser.1:v.1(1836) to the present. And we only buy monographs in print format, because our researchers overwhelmingly prefer print. Certainly, electronic access is great, considering one can gain it wherever one has access to the internet, but ours is a destination library, regularly visited by scholars from all over the world, so they are happy to use our print holdings.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Voulgaroktonou, post: 3694956, member: 84047"]Dear Doug et al., In my field (Classics), I think we will continue to use printed books for some time to come. Electronic access to books in our area remains small, although it is growing. I'd say perhaps 5% of our materials are available electronically, although the numbers do increase. Although we subscribe to electronic journals when possible, we continue to keep our print subscriptions, for the holdings of many of our long running journals go back to their initial volume, published often over 100 years ago. For example, we have from the Revue Numismatique the first volume: ser.1:v.1(1836) to the present. And we only buy monographs in print format, because our researchers overwhelmingly prefer print. Certainly, electronic access is great, considering one can gain it wherever one has access to the internet, but ours is a destination library, regularly visited by scholars from all over the world, so they are happy to use our print holdings.[/QUOTE]
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