15th February 2012, 01:49 PM
My main complaint above, having already paid over a huge amount of hard-earned in the first place to use the library, is the way they are removing existing hard-copy from the shelves (which are conspicuously left with empty shelves, in some cases for several years, just to rub it in) in favour of (to the likes of myself) inaccessible E-copies...how's that saving/generating income? - they're actually having to (a) employ someone to commit the deed, (b) subscribe to the E-version of something they already own, and © provide somewhere else to hide the original copies. The library in question has actually managed to completely lose the whole run of Britannia for instance - the paper copies and and catalogue references to same have been removed (but as usual they've left the big gap on the shelving), but someone seems to have forgotten to add the E-version to the library catalogue, so now no one has access to the journal! Idiocy!