Because we should be able to negotiate good prices from suppliers on behalf of our users. We've got that customer base. We're already seeing consortial negotiating going on in terms of other electronic services. Negotiating with document delivery suppliers ought to be right up there. They already do that.
People buy their own books and journals.
Many of our users have made a tremendous investment in building excellent personal collections. And many of those same users are library supporters. We don't have to build in-house collections because we can cover our users immediate needs buy purchasing articles on a 'just in time' basis. I find this a scary prospect. It is my belief that ILL was built on the premise that if we don't learn to share, we each, individually, have to buy separately everything we might ever need.