Kongress 2007, March 2007 © Chris Armstrong & Ray Lonsdale, 2007 1 Kongress 2007 e-Books and e-Book Readers: Can libraries manage them? Chris Armstrong

1Kongress 2007, March 2007© Chris Armstrong & Ray Lonsdale, 2007

Kongress 2007

e-Books and e-Book Readers:Can libraries manage them?

Chris Armstrong and Ray LonsdaleInformation Automation Limited and University of

Wales, Aberystwyth


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Issues

Reference

Monograph

Textbook

Literature

Plain text Multimedia

Free Charged

Purchased Licensed

Publisher AggregatorLibrary supplier

Desktop PC

e-Bookreader

TYPES

Sciences

Humanities

User interface / Software

Discovery


Issues: Management Discovering the existence of e-book titles

The bibliographic map Publishers’ catalogues/Pubs’ advertising/web Library Journals (reviews/announcements) Subject gateways/lists Discussion/mailing lists Staff recommendations Other library Web sites Conferences/Exhibitions Serendipity

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Issues: Management Discovering the existence of e-book titles

Trade bibliographies – Nielsen Bookdata Union Catalogues – OCLC WorldCat

Internet bookshops and e-book suppliers eBooks.com The Assayer Children’s eLibrary

Aggregators (netLibrary, Questia, EBL, Dawsons)

National Bibliographies


Issues: Management

Ways in which the discovery of titles can be improved

Need for legal deposit / national bibliography Portal for bibliographical sources and services,

single source for e-book publishers? Free e-books remains a major bibliographical

issue e.g. Two Cities, Project Gutenberg


Issues: Management

Selection/Acquisition Budget (e-resources vs. e-books) Skills for evaluating e-books Need for approvals / publisher trials

Passwords, timing & duration, etc

Incorporation in library management systems

Cataloguing issues (MARC records) Adequacy of Collection Development Policy

to address e-book (and other e-resource) policy issues


Issues: Management

Licensing

User groups (in library / in institution / remote / distance learners / professional/commercial users)

Number of concurrent users Part-book access Printing / e-copying / copying to laptops Charging mechanisms

pay-per-view banding (academic consortia) optional bundling


Issues: Management

Licensing

Administration of licences / legal issues

Consortia / National or regional licences JISC Model Licence

Non-library licensing (e.g. Safari)

Licence may control archiving…


Issues: Management

Archiving

Does the licence allow archiving Whose responsibility? Publisher? Is there a library need?

If you never ‘acquire’ but only licence Right to use archived copy after cancellation

of licence Long-term archiving – coping with:

hardware/software/network (+ obsolescence) regular updates


Issues: Management

Facilitating access

OPAC (link from Catalogue/ p- & e- records?)

Web sites (ILS/department; OPAC link?) Easy password authentication Lending / use of portable readers / loan of

readers Virtual Learning Environments Information Literacy / Training E-Safety issues (acceptable use)


Issues: Management

Hardware and/or Networking Intranet/LAN (security, password, bandwidth) Firewalls Physical security Compatibility (w-stn/browser/software) Workstations: sufficient; ergonomics Printers – access, devolved costs to students Liaising with IT department/24hr support Organisational change Disenfranchised users


Issues: Management Evaluating use

Whose responsibility? Publisher’s statistics

Adequacy? (Differentiate between levels of use i.e. by time spent on book per session; differentiate between categories of users, ability to count failed accesses/turnaways; knowledge shift)

Project COUNTER (www.projectcounter.org) compliant?

Library management systems (adequacy?) Use of evaluation facilities of VLEs Other evaluation (e.g. user citations of e-books)?

Qualitative evaluation


Issues: Management

Promotion in the institution

Case for promotion of e-books (JUSTEIS) Methods for promotion

Institutional Library responsibilities Academic staff/websites/VLEs/curriculum Staff training programmes Information Literacy

Role of publishers National bodies e.g. JISC

IL programmes Orientation of new usersStaff information sessions E-book daysNewsletters Daily BulletinsWeb, Intranet & list messages Surrogate e-books on shelvesPosters and exhibitions BookmarksE-book champions RoadshowsCurrent awareness by e-mail T-shirts, etc!VLE announcements Screensavers

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Special needs / disability access Links with publishers to develop a critical

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Chris ArmstrongInformation Automation Limitede: [email protected] [PowerPoint]

w: http://www.i-a-l.co.uk/ conference_leipzig.hmtlb: http://i-a-l.blogspot.com/

Ray LonsdaleDepartment of Information Studies

University of Wales, Aberystwyth

e: [email protected]

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