Iowa State's Curtis Brandy, in an [interview](https://ceup.openingthefuture.net/news/52/) on the [Opening the Future](https://www.openingthefuture.net) site:
> Libraries have traditionally placed their scholarly communications and collections work in distinct organizational silos. This has meant, in many cases, that the values that inform a library’s work in scholarly communications do not actually inform the work done in collections. […] At Iowa State, we have just adopted a [new collection and open strategies policy](https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/entities/publication/b0aeade3-3dec-4d9f-84d6-aacbd140f157) that centers our library’s values in our collection work. […] Aligning our scholarly communications work and values with collections helps a library to shift this spending from traditional collection procurement to open investing, which will help incentivize and support the transition to a more equitable scholarly publishing system.
This is indeed the rub: The scholarly comms librarian or office, in most U.S. libraries, is nowhere near the collections budget. The Iowa State [policy](https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/entities/publication/b0aeade3-3dec-4d9f-84d6-aacbd140f157) is a promising first step, but what about a complete merger of the roles—so that scholarly communications and collections are served by the same, unified staff?