id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15139 Budd, John M. A Critique of Customer and Commodity 1997-07-01 12 .pdf application/pdf 7198 302 53 There are some problems, which are discussed in detail, with the popularly held notions of library users as customers and of library services as commodities. For example, Suzanne Walters states that �If libraries are to sur- A Critique of Customer and Commodity John M. Budd For some good reasons, academic librarians see library users as cus- tomers, and library materials and access as commodities. cache/crl-15139.pdf txt/crl-15139.txt