/ The Unhinged Librarian
Notes from the field

Exhibits

The receipts, attached.

The primary sources behind the filings: vendor announcements, court records, and what patrons run into in the wild. Dated, and linked to where they came from.

OverDrive

The B2B distributor behind Libby and Sora, in its own words.

OverDrive's Amplify announcement describing patron reading data as aggregated, anonymized, and actionable

OverDrive’s Amplify announcement: patron reading data, “aggregated, anonymized, and for the first time, genuinely actionable.”

Source: the filing →
Full Publishers Weekly article: Spotlight on OverDrive, announcing the Amplify data product

The full Publishers Weekly “Spotlight on OverDrive” piece announcing Amplify.

Publishers Weekly · the Amplify filing →

Baker & Taylor

The library wholesaler that became “A Follett Company,” the paper trail, and the view from inside.

Baker and Taylor cat mascots on a sticker reading 'Baker & Taylor, A Follett Company'

Baker & Taylor’s mascots, Baker and Taylor, now badged “A Follett Company.”

Cited in: the B&T filing →
Panorama of the Las Vegas Strip seen from a high floor of the Cosmopolitan hotel

Follett and Baker & Taylor combined their sales meetings here. We were being blended into Follett. The beginning of the end. The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas.

Author photo · the B&T filing →
A Baker & Taylor 'Exceptions Flag' cataloging form and a processing slip for a library book, with a handwritten note about a missing 'new' sticker

Baker & Taylor’s shelf-ready service, up close: an “Exceptions Flag” cataloging form and the processing slip for a single library-bound book.

Author photo · the B&T filing →
First page of Senator Ron Wyden's November 2021 letter to Baker and Taylor PDF

Sen. Ron Wyden’s letter to Baker & Taylor, November 18, 2021.

Source: full letter (PDF) →
First page of Baker & Taylor's court response to OCLC's motion for a temporary restraining order PDF

Baker & Taylor’s response to OCLC’s motion for a restraining order: OCLC, Inc. v. Baker & Taylor, S.D. Ohio, Sept. 2025.

Source: court filing (PDF) →

Library spending records

What libraries actually pay the vendors, straight from the public board packets.

Davis County Commissioners agenda item approving a $122,640.39 payment to OverDrive via the Utah State Library Beehive Consortium for 2026 PDF

Davis County (UT) library board, Nov. 2025: approving a $122,640.39 payment to OverDrive for 2026, via the Utah State Library Beehive Consortium. The agreement notes the library’s 2024 OverDrive circulation was 1,127,583.

Davis County Library Board packet, Nov. 13, 2025 · full packet on Utah’s Public Notice Website · the agreement excerpt (PDF) →