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Kongress 2007

Kongress 2007. e-Books and e-Book Readers: Can libraries manage them? Chris Armstrong and Ray Lonsdale Information Automation Limited and University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Readers:. and. e-Books. Plain text. Multimedia. Reference. Desktop PC. T Y P E S. Sciences. Monograph.

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Kongress 2007

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  1. Kongress 2007 e-Books and e-Book Readers: Can libraries manage them? Chris Armstrong and Ray Lonsdale Information Automation Limited and University of Wales, Aberystwyth

  2. Readers: and

  3. e-Books Plain text Multimedia Reference Desktop PC T Y P E S Sciences Monograph Issues e-Book reader Textbook Literature Free Charged Humanities Discovery Purchased Licensed User interface / Software Library supplier Publisher Aggregator

  4. 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 and

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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) • optionalbundling

  9. 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…

  10. 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

  11. 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)

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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 users Staff information sessions E-book days Newsletters Daily Bulletins Web, Intranet & list messages Surrogate e-books on shelves Posters and exhibitions Bookmarks E-book champions Roadshows Current awareness by e-mail T-shirts, etc! VLE announcements Screensavers

  15. Issues: Management • Other • Special needs / disability access • Links with publishers to develop a critical mass • Need for national initiatives • Sensitise policy makers to new e-resources • Changes to workflow / impact on services

  16. Chris Armstrong Information Automation Limited e: lisqual@cix.co.uk [PowerPoint] w: http://www.i-a-l.co.uk/ conference_leipzig.hmtl b: http://i-a-l.blogspot.com/ Ray Lonsdale Department of Information Studies University of Wales, Aberystwyth e: rel@aber.ac.uk

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