Our study assessed the opportunity for library space saving and cost avoidance through the systematic and intentional outsourcing of local management operations for digitized books to shared service providers and progressive downsizing of local print collections in favor of negotiated access to the digitized corpus and regionally consolidated print inventory. As detailed in the report that follows, the organizational change required to achieve these gains is likely to be substantial and challenging to implement. Yet, the opportunity costs of inaction may prove even greater than the risks of enacting shared print management regimes. Many of the positive transformations that academic.
