Closest Book meme

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

And here is my nearest book...
Acquisitions Go Global: an introduction to library collection management in the 21st Century by Jim Agee

The typical constraints are budgets that cannot keep pace with costs of materials, limits to knowledge when confronted with dynamically evolving technological products, meeting the needs of diverse populations of information seekers, and simply not having as much time to invest in crafting solutions as most professionals would like. A significant redeeming factor in all of this is that the situation, at an individual professional level, is essentially the same regardless of location. Whether a librarian lives in a developing nation with a less-than-reliable physical infrastructure or in North America, the entire profession is trying to find solutions. Location is less a factor in the work of today's librarianship than technology, networked production of new information, and the all too real fact that there are still only 24 hours in a day. Librarians must work to balance theoretical goals with real practicalities. Commitments have recently been made at major institutions, such as the decision at the University of Chicago, to continue acquiring traditional bound books. Books are a known format, easily accessible by library users, and there is already a huge existing collection of books upon which to continue building.