E-books in Libraries: Big Dreams Meet Reality Sue Polanka Wright

E-books in Libraries: Big Dreams Meet Reality Sue Polanka Wright No State Shelf University Require Libraries d @spolanka

What are your big dreams?

Good Conte Preserve Control nt Copy Paste Access Share No Fees Consortia eBooks ILL No DR Accessible M One Affordable Format Own No Limits Download

Purchasing eBooks

Business Models & Licensing One Book-One User/Checkout Multi-User Unlimited Use Collections Do you OWN or LEASE? Subscriptions Patron Driven Short-Term Loan Access Fees

Patron Driven Acquisition Libraries select titles MARC records in catalog Use of book triggers purchase Various trigger/price points Guaranteed use of purchased content Still need balanced collection

Short Term Loan 1, 2, 3, 7, 14, 30 day loans Nothing owned Cost saving strategy ILL alternative More content Accountability – You spent how much on what?

EBL OverDriv e eBooks on EBSCOho st Ingram MyiLibrar y ebrary 3M

Consortial Purchasing ’s More content, less money Consistency across libraries Share content ILL One license

Consortial Purchasing ’s More content, less money Consistency across libraries One license Share content ILL -’s Long process Less control of content selection Negotiating the multiplier Larger queues for popular titles

Local Load with Open Source – it’s FREE!

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Locally Managed Content ’s -’s Own Content Staff Control Interface Technology You are the aggregator You are the vendor Self-preservation Upkeep costs No DRM Not all publishers will play

What’s New?

OverDrive WIN Platform Format choices Simultaneous use Patron-driven acquisition Content samples DRM free content OverDrive help

3M Cloud Library Few publishers Multi-platform reading eReaders for checkout Discovery station Photo courtesy of Eric Hellman In beta now Photo from 3M

Open Access eBooks Liberate eBooks Creative Commons License Funded public radio style Fair price established Crowdsourced

In Library Lending Internet Archive & Open Library Pool of 100K ebooks 1000 libraries 20th Century titles Free Donate one book to the program to join

Freading

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