The Arms article on access management (Arms, 1998) provides a good overview of what must have been a fairly preliminary set of ideas on how to provide secure access to digital materials. I wonder if the article is still relevant, that is, are the policies for access management, more or less, still in place today? Have those policies changed a little, a lot?
The Lesk article gives a good overview of economic issues facing libraries. One of the main and most relevant points the Lesk makes is that with additional services that libraries are providing, the cost of those services must be made up somehow. How to make up that cost difference is an important consideration for libraries. A number of pay for service options are listed in the article, but it doesn't occur to me that any of them are actually being used in any significant way for DLs with the exception of the no-fee model. Is it even realistic for DLs to think about charging for information? Have any libraries (academic or otherwise) moved to a charge for service model for digital or analog information access?
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