Joe Deville, writing for the COPIM team on working with academic libraries:
What this means for us as a project, however, is that our answer to the question ‘how can open access books be better integrated into libraries?’ has to perform a tricky balancing act. On the one hand, it has to be mindful of [...] the uncomfortable practices of instrumentalism which many of our stakeholders find themselves having to engage in. On the other hand, it is vital for us that we avoid ourselves succumbing to instrumentalism
Deville is reporting from COPIM's three remote workshops with librarians. By "instrumentalism," he means a transactional approach to OA support, whereby libraries only pony up for projects and services that directly benefit their institution. He attributes the instrumentalist stance to the broader marketization of the university—in Britain, especially. It is, alas, a fact on the ground, and hence the "tricky balancing act."
The update is well worth reading. The UK-based team captures, among other things, how stratified the US library system is, with a narrow band of rich institutions open to funding OA projects and the rest—poorer and smaller—more instrumentalist by budgetary necessity. New to this reader, too, was that Cast Iron Coding (of Manifold fame) is on tap to produce a COPIM-sponsored "platform."