Consolidated delivery to major campus locations only. Users would place electronic requests for the materials from the UCSD Libraries or interlibrary loans requests. Items would be retrieved, checked out to the patron, and delivered to centralized delivery points throughout the campus, typically within 5 minutes from most offices. This model would avoid the costly delivery service to hundreds of individual offices and departments all over campus. Staff at the central delivery location would be responsible for signing for all items delivered and parsing of material to the requesters.
Library retains and completely supports the electronic ordering function.
Library Express staff, equipment, vehicles, and supplies would be eliminated or drastically reduced for cost savings. If only half the requesters continued using the service. If only a third of the users continued using the service. Library staff would be reduced severely to account for the decrease in workload on the assumption that a large numbers of users, many of them occasional, would elect not to use the services because of the transaction charge. Most users would average 6 months of use.