E-books in Denmark

Agenda:• 1. Who are we?• 2. What did we do?• 3. What happens in Denmark?• 4. What are the perspectives for the

future?

1. Who are we?

Facts about Aarhus Public Libraries:

4.95 mill. loans in 2001 2.3 mill. visits in 2001 App. 1000 html documents 2.1 mill. visits on website in 2001

Description of project environment

Project oriented workproces Encouraging to individual

initiatives and ideas Development funds Participation in national projects

Aarhus as Central Library for the County

Support the county’s libraries with know-how

Support knowledge and competencies regarding new media

Background on the e-book project in Aarhus or - how it all started

Act Regarding Library Services in Denmark 2000• The equality of all media• Obligation to qualify in new types of media

Articles and competence development• Feature in The Library Magazine ‘Danske

Biblioteker’• Our first Rocket e-book

2. What did we do?

Project E-teket www.eteket.dk

Background

Competence development Being on the technological edge Obligation as central library

Rockets for all

A Rocket for each of the county’s libraries

Digitisation of local historical text Lending of e-books to the patrons

Website

Presentation of front-end www.eteket.dk

Presentation of back-end www.eteket.dk/indskriv

Marketing

Reception/grand opening First library in Denmark Articles/interviews Radio/television Internal marketing Introductions for the patrons Queue talks Christmas event in co-operation with publisher Folders/postcards

Practice

Practical considerations Rules and conditions Titles available

www.eteket.dk/aarhus/profiler.htm

Partners

Faktalink : Articles about popular subjects Retsinformation: Fulltext database on Law Royal Danish Library: Danish classics eForlaget: Contemporary Danish poetry and

fiction Hovedland: Decembers grønne mørke

(Christmas event)

Problems and Challenges

Copyright problems Number of titles in Danish Technical difficulties Problems with buying

Experiences

Too soon…. A lot of media hype Rockets are too heavy with poor

screens Lack of titles

3. What happens in Denmark?

Danish e-book centre Co-operation with publisher Project Downlaan E-books at The Danish National

Library for the Blind

Danish Resource centre for e-books

Situated in Randers, funded for 2 years (725.000 Dkr)

by Danish National Library Authority

Purpose of the project

Investigate the possibilities for e-books Investigate the role of the libraries Collecting experience about handling and

lending of e-books User investigations Test of e-book hardware Competence development Integration of electronic texts in library

databases

What does the Centre do?

Maintaining the website http://www.e-bogscenter.dk/ Test of new e-book hardware

- HP Jornada, Rocket eBook Pro, REB 1100, Franklin eBookMan, Palm m500 and goReader

Documenting e-book hardware Hotline for Danish libraries about e-books Information and lectures Arranging e-book conference April 10 2002 in Randers

eBogsCenter.dk

www.e-bogscenter.dk Newsletter, articles Documentation, manuals and tests Collecting information and experiences

about e-books Free downloads of e-books FAQ and link resources

Lending of Danish e-books from Modtryk

Background: Swedish libraries is lending out e-books from the e-book publisher eLib.

The centre contacts eLib, who is interested in doing a pilotproject in co-operation with Danish publisher

Modtryk (Danish publisher) gets involved and provides 11 books to the project

In the spring of 2002 Randers Library will start lending out the titles from their homepage www.randersbib.dk.

Randers Bibliotek has to pay 20 SEK. For each loan plus 2000 SEK for each title for converting to e-book format.

eLib do the converting and encryption E-books can be borrowed for 5 days or 7.000 minutes.

Format are Acrobat Reader and the e-books can only be accessed from a computer.

It’s not possible to print or copy the e-books. eLib is working on a format, that can be read at

handhelp devices. The publisher clears the rights by the authors. You have to be a registered patron in Randers to

borrow. Goal: To integrate titles in OPAC

Lending of Danish e-books from Modtryk

The 11 e-book titles are: Jan Guillou: Vejen til Jerusalem. Jan Guillou: Tempelridderen. Jan Guillou: Riget ved vejens ende. Jan Guillou: Arven efter Arn. Adda Lykkeboe: Balladen om Antonie. Sven Sprogø: Dagmar. Maria Helleberg: Lille Jens Lund. Jytte Borberg: Kunne I mærke, da I blev små? Hans-Jørgen Schanz: Menneskerettigheder. Rune T. Kidde: Søde Sally Sukkertop og andre ækle æventyr 1. Anders Johansen: En splint af korset.

More titles to come in 2002

Lending of Danish e-books from Modtryk

Project Downlaan - www.downlaan.dk

Integrating e-books in library systems

Project Downlaan - www.downlaan.dk

Cooperation between Public Library of Copenhagen, Aarhus Public Library, DBC and Gyldendal

Goal: • Investigate how to make fair deals with publishers• Develop methods to protect the publishers copyright• Find technical solutions on how to integrate digital materials in the

traditional OPAC• Study catalogization strategies for e-books• Make e-books and other digital material accessible on equal terms

Status:• Funding rejected from the Danish Library Authority• Working on new financial strategy

E-books at The Danish National Library for the Blind

E-books and accessibility

E-books at The Danish National Library for the Blind

The current collection of e-books consists of approx.. 400 titles The e-books are sent to the users by Email or floppy Can be downloaded directly from the homepage Print the text out on Braille printers Screen readers and synthetic speech Digital Braille display Can be converted into large print Future:

• XML sourcefiles can be converted into different formats• Digital audio books

Further information: www.dbb.dk/English

4. What are the perspectives for the future?

Which role should the library play regarding e-books?

Should libraries lend out e-books? Selecting and compilating content User-requested e-books The Mobile Library