New books/inventory

Ever since the B&T meltdown, new books have been scarce in our system. The Lucky Day & New Books tables are pretty empty most of the time, with long wait times for holds.

Frequently the books I’m looking for can only be found as ebooks or audiobooks which I’d rather avoid because of cost and preference for physical copies.

Whenever I ask, staff say it’s still because of new vendor issues. Are other systems still seeing this huge lag? I’m also afraid that collection development will point to increased ebook usage to justify putting more money into those resources instead of physical books.