Ohio's Excellent Libraries Need Excellent Electronic Content

Ohio’s Excellent LibrariesNeed Excellent Electronic

Content

Matt WeaverBoard Member,Library Renewal Web Librarian,Westlake Porter Public Library

@mattrweaver

Eli NeiburgerAssociate Director forIT and Production

Ann Arbor District Library

eli@eliworks.com

@ulotrichous

Libraries arescrewed.

Then, the format changed, like it had so many times before, a wave passing through society, changing everything it touched just like the codex had so many years ago.

B u t t h i s t i m e . s o m e t h i n g w a s fundamentally, hauntingly different. The age of Licenses had begun.

So, what canLibraries expectin this century?

openmarket

closedmarket

KindleStore

AppStore

eBrary

Overdrive

AndroidMarket

Big BoxRetailers

FleaMarkets

TheWeb

GarageSales

eBay

Publishing Thrives

Apple

Amazon

Newspapers

Candle Industry

Travel Agents

Buggy Whip Industry

Publishing Dies Back

Neo Renaissance

Low Price PointsLots of Pro Output

No DRMDevices don’t matterDeals with many PubsLibs buy & distribute

Free Culture Society

Free is Dominant PriceWide quality range

No DRM / Access barrierDevices don’t matter

Death of the Pub DealLibs collect & store

DRM Dystopia

Prices stay highLots of Pro OutputDRM everywhere

Device Exclusivity FightsIntermediated Pub DealsLibs take what we can get

Platform Wars

App Store PricesHuge quality range

DRM triumphCreator Exclusivity DealsNo more deals for Libs

Libs find a new way

OpenMarkets

ClosedMarkets

PublishingThrives

PublishingDies back

What to do now?

What to do now?Build up StorageInfrastructure.

What to do later?

What to do later?Make deals withRightsholders.

Back to roots:

Libraries provide access to the content of the

community, not content for the community

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Later,be positioned to

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“ H e ’ s o n e b a d mother...”“Shut your mouth,”

The20th Century

Library broughtthe world to its

community;

The21st Century

Library bringsits communityto the world.

WHY?

Ereader Boom 2

Holidays 2011 – Here we go again!

Sub-$100 ereaders

Ereader shipments to reach 27 million units for 2011

To create the primary access point for electronic content for

users of libraries.

By libraries, with libraries, for libraries.

Bylaws and mission ensure that our mission is that of libraries.

Parterships. Relationships. Research. Solutions.

Phase I: what have we done so far?

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Advocates  and  PartnerLibraries

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New separate Advocates/Partners sections coming in November

PartnerLibraries

Group #1: Readers advisory work. reviews, book lists, etc.

Group #2 - writing and presenting at the local level.

Group #3 – Anything else you want to do to help! Seriously!

PartnerLibraries

Partner libraries will ensure that what is built is what they and their patrons actually need.

PartnerLibraries

Four partner libraries on board

PartnerLibraries

Santa Monica Public Library

PartnerLibraries

Two Rivers Public Library (WI)

PartnerLibraries

Newark (TX) Public Library

PartnerLibraries

King County Library System (WA)

PartnerLibraries

Five hours/month2 hours for monthly meeting1 hour – one-on-one conversations to discuss infrastructure features, etc.2 hours reading/answering emails

PartnerLibraries

Sign non-disclosure agreementOne contact person at the libraryLibrary director must meet with LR

PartnerLibraries

Financial contributions are NOT required.

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