How are academic librarians making their patrons aware of ebook options? An afternoon panel at yesterday’s LJ’s and School Library Journal’s virtual summit, “Ebooks: The New Normal,” tackled just that.
LJ/SLJ Ebook Summit: More School Libraries Offer Ebooks; Increased Demand, Rise in Circulation
LJ/SLJ Ebook Summit: Offering Patrons More Than One Delivery Platform
The panel on ebooks strategy in public libraries took a turn to the practical, with the focus on platforms (OverDrive, B&T’s Axis 360 and Blio, and 3M’s Cloud Library ebook), collaboration through consortia, selection, purchasing, and marketing of ebooks.
Two things were crystal clear, however: ebooks use has exploded in public libraries. And OverDrive isn’t the only kid on the block. In answer to questions from attendees on how to select a vendor, those who have added other ebook platforms along with OverDrive all said they were looking at providers’ maintenance fees and at their own financial resources.
Notes From the 2011 Ebook Summit
Sharon Moreland, Technology Consultant for the Northeast Kansas Library System, attended and took some impressive notes during today’s virtual summit, Ebooks: The New Normal, including these highlights from Library Journals’ VP, Group Publisher Ian Singer’s presentation of data from our hot-off-the presses 2011 Ebook Penetration & Use Reports.
LJ/SLJ Ebook Summit: Academic Panel Tackles PDA, Ebook Discovery
Four academic librarians at different stages of implementing patron-driven acquisition (PDA) at their institutions share a range of experiences as they tackled issues surrounding PDA and ebook discovery.
LJ/SLJ Ebook Summit Panelists Remind Librarians of an Old Creed: Free to All
Four Librarians, Four Ereaders, One Month
Ebook Marketplace Q&A: David Burleigh, OverDrive
“Libraries will serve in the same role they always have: As curators of information for their communities. Librarians are ‘information specialists’ and they will continue to connect readers with all forms of reading. Patrons will come to libraries for recommendations of what to read next and to find and discover relevant information.”