Digital Procurement Makes Big Gains During Pandemic
With DemandStar and other tech providers reporting big recent growth, the future shines brightly for digital procurement services at the state and local levels. But look out for Amazon maybe.
July 15, 2021 • When everything is eventually tallied up, digital procurement could end up as a big pandemic winner.
One of the latest examples comes from Seattle-based DemandStar. The e-bidding procurement platform for state and local governments recently said that it had gained 200 new clients in the first half of this year, which already equals the number of agencies the company added in all of 2020.
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This paper discusses an Australian perspective of digital library economics.
Introduction: definition and scope
In 1998 the Digital Library Federation offered the following definition of digital libraries : Digital libraries are organizations that provide the resources, including the specialized staff, to select, structure, offer intellectual access to, interpret, distribute, preserve the integrity of, and ensure the persistence over time of collections of digital works so that they are readily and economically available for use by a defined community or set of communities .(Council on Library and Information Resources,1998)
This definition emphasises that a digital library, like any library, is more than a mere aggregation of information resources: it is a service which is based on principles of selection, acquisition, access, management and preservation, related to a specific client community (Cathro, 1999). Thus any analysis of the economic aspects of digital libraries wil