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So they did. I must've blown past it. They also said, "we’ve never had books in our library (or any other public spaces) since I’ve been here." But the web site says, "Resources include close to 500,000 print volumes." I'll take your word that the university accepts 400 out of 90,000, but the OP is really one in a million.

Do take my words about where exactly the books are going with a grain of salt. I believe there was only a few sentences about that part in the email. Either way, its very frustrating because a lot of our books were donations, and some are donations from people who are no longer with us. To take those somewhere else would be such a slap in the face to those people

Please see my previous comment. That video is literally, "some guy on the internet."

Show something with some proof to it.

Could be worse, could be Vermont Tech being dropped to club sports.

Agreed. I love that place to stop when heading that way!

I used to just get the PBS channels and some French channels. Recently I got some channels that are associated with WCAX? Anyway, they appeared out of the blue and I suddenly felt like we were livin‘ fancy, haha. Some days they come in perfectly, others they skip all over the place.

That's even more insanity. I could kind of understand if they were moving them to remote storage. They'd still be available, but you'd have to wait a bit to get access. Giving them away is crazy. Unless... maybe there is a historical museum which will be getting them?

Right but institutions don’t need libraries that’s the whole point. LSC doesn’t need a collection. JSC doesn’t need a collection. There is nothing in these libraries that can’t be found online, and when I was student teaching 15 years ago we were teaching 9th graders how to research, including accessing scholarly sites and collections. So yes at some point people need to be taught, but that is a middle and high school task. They should get to college knowing how to find sources.

Haha, I do not mind in the slightest! The information is very helpful and I appreciate you for sharing it.

Yes! Thanks for the seconding! And excellent local recommendations, too!

He wants to train martyrs for his cause, not be one.

There will have to be a librarian in charge of ordering them via whatever platform they are available on, then activating them, then managing access, at the very least. It's extremely improbable that they would create their own platform. That's just unfeasible. For e-books, there already is control over what you can access and that will continue. But, it is complicated in a lot of ways.

I haven't (yet) looked at the Vermont schools' current libraries to see what they're using right now. I'm assuming they will continue to use those same vendors and probably add more. It's not really outsourcing in the way that's usually understood, but yes, it does require working with outside vendors.

Hey, if I was having lunch with you, I could go on for hours about e-resources and libraries, but I'll refrain here. LOL.

What about you? What’s your business?

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As someone who installs Tesla batteries I generally agree with u/homeonthemountain. Though I don’t think it’s so black and white. To answer your question though. It’s not the state it’s GMP and VEC. And not actually a deal with Tesla as far as I understand. Both of those utilities have leasing programs that allow people to get batteries at relatively low upfront cost and a low monthly fee. The utilities get to use the batteries as small peaking generators while primarily maintaining them in reserve for use as home backup. They used to only offer the program with tesla batteries more recently they’ve also started allowing Enphase systems as well. Another alternative, though not necessarily as simple, would be a custom system with lead acid or maybe lithium. Those come likely with higher upfront cost and potentially more challenging financing and insurance implications. Not to mention a somewhat more complex system that might need periodic maintenance. Though cost over time could be lower. No doubt though installers push the low upfront cost that is essentially just an installation fee to get people to buy batteries they don’t necessarily need and pay the higher cost over time. All that said there’s plenty more to consider on what kind of battery you get or if you even need one.

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What?

The switch to digital didn’t help, but also some stations no longer have repeaters on Mt. Ascutney or Equinox.

I do know that since I work in a library.

Those that learned it later in life? The internet as we know it has been around since the early 90s and librarians in their 40s and 50s grew up with it. I'm only in my early 40s and was on BBS's in the late 80s. Prior to' 94 databases were housed on floppy disks and CDs. The literature and testing has shown that Millennials and GenZ are actually worse at research online because they lack basic information literacy skills. I teach information literacy to grad students in their 20s that have never heard about boolean operators, truncation, etc. They have no idea how to utilize the CRAAP test or how to access databases. Google has made people intellectually lazy, meanwhile we in the information science field are the ones that write and know how to navigate the metadata. It takes a master's degree to become an academic librarian for a reason.

Gillingham's in Woodstock is near WRJ and is a quintessential general store for this kind of thing.

They said Northeastern in the post

Dude, the OP said "ours [library websites] are [created and maintained] by students on work study, computer code, and recently some AI." Without knowing where the OP went to school, I asked if it was accredited based on his clearly inaccurate assertion about who manages the library web content. I have no doubt Northeastern is accredited and their library is above reproach. I'll bet the lives of my children that their website is not managed by work study students.

Don’t forget your GPS! Getting lost in there is frighteningly easy.