Shoot.  There’s nothing “potentially infinite” about our campus population or even the number of “potential users.”  And even if selling a loaf of bread meant giving out a potentially infinite number of slices . . .(etc.), it wouldn’t change the cost to produce and distribute the bread or change the value of the bread itself.

Sarah Tusa, Associate Professor

Coordinator of Collection Development & Acquisitions

Mary & John Gray Library, Lamar University

PO Box 10021

Beaumont, TX  77710-0021

Ph:   409/880-8125

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Anderson
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 10:51 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Just a thought . . .

>  This thought just occurred to me:  It’s a good thing that bread
>  manufacturers don’t charge by the number of full-time-equivalent
>  members of a household, or by the number of “potential users.”

They would charge that way if selling a loaf of bread actually meant giving out a potentially infinite number of slices to everyone in the bread-buyer’s household, as well as every guest.

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Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dir. for Scholarly Resources & Collections
Marriott Library
Univ. of Utah
rick.anderson@utah.edu
(801) 721-1687