Market Complex

The way we shop is changing fast, but you won’t hear anything about new concepts in shopping centers at this session. What you will learn about are the factors driving constant change for academic libraries, publishers, and booksellers, who today inhabit a market complex enough to rival retail shopping as an activity barely recognizable from even the recent past. How is success defined today? Does success look the same to everyone, or are there competing approaches in redefining what it means to build an academic library book collection today?