{"id":1920,"date":"2006-11-28T18:26:03","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T23:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=165"},"modified":"2006-11-28T18:26:03","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T23:26:03","slug":"print-on-demand-coming-to-the-nypl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/28\/print-on-demand-coming-to-the-nypl.html","title":{"rendered":"Print on Demand coming to the NYPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypl.org\/\">New York Public Library<\/a> will be obtaining a print-on-demand press called the <a href=\"http:\/\/ondemandbooks.com\/\">Espresso Book Machine<\/a>, which can create a paperback from a PDF file in about 5 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The machine, which costs about $100,000, has the potential to change how libraries could provide materials.\u00a0 Imagine a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/\">WorldCat<\/a>-like opac that lets you choose an item, which is printed while you wait (and 5 minutes spent finding a book is not unusual for a larger library), and is able then to be checked out.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what percentage of a library&#8217;s collection could be held digitally?\u00a0 This could solve much of the space crunch facing many libraries, in the long term.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsforge.com\/article.pl?sid=06\/11\/16\/1434250&#038;from=rss\">NewsForge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Public Library will be obtaining a print-on-demand press called the Espresso Book Machine, which can create a paperback from a PDF file in about 5 minutes. The machine, which costs about $100,000, has the potential to change &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/28\/print-on-demand-coming-to-the-nypl.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2940,2943,2952,2966],"tags":[3223,3911,3021],"class_list":["post-1920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ils","category-libraries","category-online-services","category-software","tag-nypl-thenew-york-public-library","tag-nypl-the-new-york-public-library","tag-usd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-uY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}