As more books go digital, librarians will occupy more of the training and coaching role. Today’s librarian will need to excel at training users on how to use databases, eReaders, tablets and mobile.
Ebook Marketplace Q&A: Cynthia Sanner & Erin Sullivan, GALE Cengage Learning
Ebook Marketplace Q&A: John Williams, Follett Library Resources & BWI
Librarian-Publisher Dialog: Katie Dunneback Talks to Josh Marwell of HarperCollins
To his credit, Marwell has made himself highly visible at regional and national conventions in the wake of the 26 loan cap announcement (he was also the only publisher to respond to Francine Fialkoff and Brian Kenney’s editorial last fall about ebooks in libraries).
Ebook Marketplace Q&A: George Coe, Baker & Taylor
Ebook Marketplace Q&A: Tom Mercer, 3M
The challenge of a digital world is how to connect a patron’s needs and interests with the right digital information. Libraries will play a vital role in showing people books the wide variety of books and authors that are available. Without variety we could becomes a nation of books only read from a top 10 list.
LINK: DBW Insights: Brian Murray, CEO of HarperCollins
(W)e’re trying to balance the needs of all of our stakeholders. So librarians and their patrons are stakeholders, as are authors, and as are booksellers. As this business transitions from physical to digital, it’s forcing us to think about different business models and try to make sure that all of those stakeholders have a role to play in the future.