Because I deal in an academic institution and most of the content that we're talking about is academic in nature that's requested and required by our faculty and researchers—that's also what they feed into—there's a great bit of dynamism right now among academics who publish to try to remake their own system of scholarly communication to basically create in an open access fashion ways that they can disseminate their research that don't require a paywall. It's challenging because I don't care who you are, if you're publishing a journal in whatever format, there's a cost to it.
These discussions are not by any means complete, but there are a lot of different efforts that are afloat, and I think that's the most important thing, to keep trying different things, for scholars and other creators to try different things, but for authors of literary works, how many can we purchase? I think that's a really interesting question for us. We have to balance a budget where we try to prioritize, in our case, purchasing British Columbia authors, purchasing indigenous authors, helping them find a platform for their works. When we catalogue something that we've purchased, everyone around the world knows that it exists. I think that those kinds of megaphones that libraries provide are helpful.
I think there's a lot that creators have to do in order to figure out the best mechanism of distributing things.