Sleeping with the enemy: experiments in Wageningen with a model for cohabitation between library and publisher

Abstract

This is what libraries kept busy for the past two decades: keeping pace with rapid evolving technology that highly impacted their core functions. Mid nineties a number of libraries seemed to be drowned by the technology flood and some prophets predicted a museum type future for them. But they, the libraries that is, seemed to have adopted the motto of the Dutch province Zeeland which reads “Luctor et emergo”. That is: struggle and emerge. Happily, the storm flattened out some years ago. Today most libraries are technologically savvy; the situation is under control.