Stresses & Strains

• Growing gap between price of info & ability to pay

• Explosion in knowledge ñ volume & formats

ARL Trends (1986-98)

• Serials

  • Unit cost +175%
  • Expenditure +152%
  • Titles purchased -7%

• Monographs

  • Unit cost +66%
  • Expenditure +33%
  • Titles purchased -25%

• Consumer Price

Index +49%

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