Alternatively, individual students can purchase their own print book (for $106.95 on the publisher’s website or at another other bookseller) or ebook (for $43 on the publisher’s website). The George Washington library has since located and placed one print copy of the book on reserve that the 269 students may check out. Vermont State U Will Make Libraries All Digital.3 Questions for Elizabeth Dellavedova, Associate Library Director at a Public Community College.Backlash as a university says its library will be 'all digital'.ProQuest did not respond to a request for comment.)

Wiley said in a statement that it notified ProQuest in June 2020 that the approximately 1,380 e-books would be withdrawn 'to allow time for ProQuest to inform its institutional customers about the change and to allow librarians ample time to explore alternatives for their institutions.' Henry recalls that ProQuest had asked Wiley to delay withdrawing the books until August 2022. Few, if any, expected the book to be removed from the library’s ebook collection on short notice. That notice, however, was insufficient, as many instructors had already planned their courses in the spring without anticipating a need to revisit their syllabi. ProQuest had notified the library in the summer that the geography book and other books would no longer be available as ebooks, according to Geneva Henry, the university’s dean of libraries and academic innovation. “Libraries have had to embark on time-consuming efforts to urgently liaise with faculty, amend reading list collections, find alternatives, get pricing information and investigate new procurement options, all at a time when we should be orientating new students who are settling in to the first normal academic year after an extremely difficult period during the pandemic.”įaculty and staff members at George Washington had a similar experience. “We condemn Wiley’s lack of consultation with libraries, the suddenness of this move and the timing, which has caused high levels of disruption at the beginning of the new academic year,” a statement from a group of Irish librarians said. Student survey reveals gaps in core academic advising functions.

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