How to Scuttle a Scholarly Communication Initiative

Academic libraries have been wasting their time trying to change the scholarly communication system on the feeblest of rationalizations. Proper librarians know that the current system is obviously the most sustainable, since it has lasted this long and provided so much benefit to libraries and profit to organizations as diverse as giant publishers and scholarly societies. Moreover, faculties have proclaimed loudly and clearly that they believe libraries’ central role is to be the campus’s collective knowledge wallet, so who are librarians to argue?