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.

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.

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 — 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 — 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) →

First page of LibraryOne Digital Inc.'s Articles of Incorporation, North Carolina Secretary of State, SOSID 3186012, date filed 12/8/2025 — LibraryOne Digital Inc.’s Articles of Incorporation, filed with the North Carolina Secretary of State at 8:00 AM on **December 8, 2025**, one week before the first Baker & Taylor purchase agreement closed. The buyer, on paper: incorporator Manjunath Ratakonda, with Hari Prasad Katukota as president.
NC Secretary of State, SOSID 3186012 · the filing (PDF) · the B&T investigation →

A redacted r/Libraries comment from a laid-off Baker & Taylor employee of nearly 12 years, describing layoffs with no communication and grieving the company's decline — A laid-off Baker & Taylor employee of nearly 12 years, on the collapse.
r/Libraries, username redacted · the B&T investigation →

Redacted r/Libraries comments from a Baker & Taylor India employee describing toxicity and being told to work on releases that would never ship — A Baker & Taylor India employee, the same week: told to work on releases that would never ship.
r/Libraries, usernames redacted · the B&T investigation →

Redacted r/Libraries comments from librarians asking what happens to their Axis 360 titles during the Baker & Taylor collapse — Librarians mid-collapse, asking what happens to their Axis 360 titles.
r/Libraries, usernames redacted · the B&T investigation →

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 — 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) →

Federal library data

How the US government counts what libraries spend and collect, in its own definitions.