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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I disagree. I've found that many times a solution that works well for 90 percent of the customer base and then handle to edges as special cases is a better approach. [...]
But when dealing with the realities of limited budgets, it's not always a wise use of resources. Many libraries specialize. When we are talking about online resources, rather than walk in resources, there is no reason not to use centralized resources.
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When that "wise use of resources" means concentrating on serving your more privileged and highly-resourced customers at the expense of your less privileged customers? I'm glad the librarians I know disagree with you. And our public library ebook lending service is "centralised" in that it's a State service, which any council library member can readily access (including getting technical help at their local library). It's just not a Very Special Disability Service with barriers to access.
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
As far as Australian resources go, well, that's something to be solved by Australia. The US put in it's own exception to copyright law to handle the situation. Perhaps more countries should do the same.
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They have put in the exception. It's just defined in overly-limited terms and poorly implemented, as "special" exceptions so often are.