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# Library logistics
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/library-logistics/
- Published: 2004-11-21T21:02:01.000Z
- Updated: 2004-11-21T21:02:01.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Institutions

*Logistics* is everywhere. During the recent [Olympics](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000399.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net), DHL and UPS were heavy advertizers. Recently, UPS has been advertizing that its role is to ‘synchronize’ companies.  
It seems to me that *logistics* is a significant part of what libraries do, they *synchronize* the need for and the supply of research and learning materials.  
Logistics is about moving information, materials and services through a network cost-effectively. Resource sharing is supported by a library logistics apparatus. The emerging e-resource *discovery to delivery* chain, tied together with resolution services, is a logistics challenge. Many of the e-resource management issues are like supply-chain management issues.  
In the library community, we tend to resist the vocabulary of business or other domains. That said, *Library logistics* is growing on me!