Having relied on such a system at UVA -- where books were actually delivered daily to our department's mailroom -- I know from experience this program would have an immediate and powerful impact on my productivity. It used to be that I would think of or hear about a book, and be reading it the next day. Now that rarely happens, unless I decide to buy the book on amazon, which is far more practicable than using my very scarce research time to hunt down a book in the stacks (that may turn out to be missing). Thank you for considering.

I had this service at both of my prior universities --Wisconsin and Cornell. At Stanford, I routinely buy books from Amazon only because Amazon delivers them.

It would a great boon to my research and teaching as I have a very busy schedule and baby to care for. There's no reason why entrepreneurial Stanford cannot provide this service as so many others do.

As a graduate student, I remember this being a selling point for other graduate programs. It would be invaluable.

There are quite a few other institutions with similar services. The University of Richmond, where I taught as a vistor, delivers books and articles directly to faculty in departments. It made a real difference in accomplishing research as was also true of my experience of the document delivery services at CASBS, at the Getty Center (in partnership with UCLA), and several other places I have visited. This should be a top priority for a well-endowed research institution. I'm pretty sure some UC campuses (e.g. UC San Diego) have this service as well.

If the University of Central Florida with a $125 million endowment can do it, then Stanford with a $19 billion endowment can surely do it too!

I used this service at Yale and it was very useful!

Would be useful for me as well.