What’s a Library to do with Ebooks?

What’s a Library to do with Ebooks?Drawing some lines in the (quick)sand

CLA webinar

April 21, 2011 Martha Hruska

Today’s Overview

What we’re good at What are ebooks? Inserting Library values in the mix Experiment, play, stay in the fray

What we’re good at

Selection Collection Organization Intermediation:

Facilitating Discovery Sharing Preservation

We’re good at… but now:

Managing the large collection for community use

Acquiring books when they’re available for the community’s benefit

Storing all these books for potential use and the cultural legacy

There’s Amazon and Google and …

Smartphones and Kindles

Can easily hold personal libraries

Easy personal access to information

What is the role of a library?

What are ebooks?

Digital versions of books, complete with page flips

Books plus enhancements? Links? Notation support?

Content vs. Platforms Access Issues All the many flavors and still in flux

Whatever they are… they are popular

UCSD 512,804 ebooks 2009/10 and growing

Sales up 202% Feb 2011 over Feb 2010

53% Libraries surveyed by Duke University Press have increased budget for ebooks from 2010 to 2011

Lots to explain...

http://ucsd.libguides.com/content.php?pid=157286

Inserting Library values in the mix

Sharing: Circulation & ILL Fair use Preserving the cultural legacy Standards?!! Version control and citation management

From University Press eBook Options: Research Project Process and OutcomesOctober Ivins, Informed Strategies. ARL Member Meeting, April 30, 2010 http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/mm10sp-ivins.pdf

UC Libraries Statement on E-Book Access in Libraries

As the UC Libraries explore options for the increased acquisition of e-books, we reaffirm the importance of fair use and equitable access to information, the principles on which all libraries stand. As we work to define suitable e-book licensing terms and models which reflect these principles, we have been struck by the highly restrictive terms under which HarperCollins is making its e-books available to libraries. We’ve also been dismayed by the policies of other publishers that do not allow libraries to make their content widely available to readers in digital formats. The UC Libraries join with the American Library Association and our public library colleagues in deploring such restrictive policies. In this complex digital arena now taking shape, we are in critical need of business practices that support the role of libraries as core democratic and educational institutions. We urge all publishers to develop e-book licensing policies that recognize and actively support the essential role that all libraries play in advancing knowledge, promoting civil discourse and fostering an informed citizenry.

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/cdsc/ebooks

Users Rights: from a librarian’s perspective

eBook models

Eric Helman’s eBook Carrots for Libraries Durability: ePub and PDFs without DRM

‘Pretend it’s Print’ eBook rentals without DRM Lots of buzz just yesterday about Amazon's

plans for library lending of Kindle books. See their Press Release.

And now this post suggesting the ability to whispersync your own notes from a library checkout as the clincher for Amazon. Kindle Library Lending: ePub Is Dead

Experiment!!

Adding ebooks from CIPA Connecting writers &

readers Purchase & ‘pretend it’s

a print book’ Red Rocks Community

College & Douglas County libraries plan to launch click-through links so interested patrons can purchase an e-book title from the catalog record.

Experiment, negotiate, stay in the fray

Demand Driven Acquisitions Expose everything? Or

everything you’re prepared to buy

Pay for uses… purchase what gets used enough

Print on Demand Espresso machines Through publishers

Open Library Hathi PDF’s and eBrary’s DASH

Questions?

Thank you!