managing e-books in libraries
DESCRIPTION
This presentation provides a brief history of the rise of the e-book, focusing on the challenges facing school libraries in their management of e-books. The Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS) as a key service provider and partner with Australian and New Zealand school libraries is committed to helping schools deal with collection management issues. One of the questions we all face at the moment is how the principles and standards that have served well for physical resources can be applied to digital resources. The presentation also looks briefly at how SCIS is cataloguing e-books.TRANSCRIPT
Education Services Australia
Managing e-books
Where are we at?
Cuddling with multiple devices by Jeremy Keith 2011, CC-by
History of publishing
Simple Practical Arithmetic' printing block by Edinburgh city of print CC-by
Short history of e-books
Time toast, www.timetoast.com/timelines/63726
Rainie, Lee and Duggan, Maeve 2012 E-book Reading Jumps; Print Book Reading Declines Pew Research Center
Defining e-book
“a book in an electronic format designed to be read in an e-reader” (Macquarie Dictionary)
An electronic book (variously, e-book, ebook, digital book, or even e-edition) is a book-length publication in
digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, and produced on, published through, and readable on
computers or other electronic devices. Sometimes the equivalent of a conventional printed book, e-books can
also be born digital http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-book
Benefits of e-books• instant access• take up less space, free up shelves• portable• hyperlinked, interactive, searchable• democratic• greener
On the same page?
• purpose
• format
• function
• library: public, school, academic, special
• publishers: scholarly or trade
• devices: compatibility with systemsNew Zealand eReading Taskforce (NZERT) wiki
http://nzert.wikispaces.com
SAMR, a model designed to help educators integrate technology
Summer Tech Institute ‘Beyond Substitution: The SAMR Model’ msad75summertechnologyinstitute.wordpress.com/beyond-substitution
Change
• community
• budgets
• infrastructure
• policies
Why do we want to change?
Kindle, eReaders, & iPad-0 by The Daring Librarian Gwyneth Jones CC-by-sa
ALIA think tank 2013
ALIA (2013). ‘E-books and e-Lending issues paper’ alia.org.au/advocacy/Ebooks.and.Elending.Issues.Paper.v4.130107.pdf
Charging of all the things by Zapp, Instagram Used with permission
DRM
DRM PNG 900 2listentomyvoice cc-by-sa
IFLA ‘Libraries (2012), e-Lending and the Future of Public Access to Digital Content’ p.25
Rather than attempting to criminalise consumers,
publishers and libraries should seek to dis-incentivize illegal
behaviour by providing an immediately accessible and seamless alternative service.
Content
• publisher behaviour
• new releases
• comprehensive service
• digital divide
• deleted content
Procurement
• flexibility
• competition and fair pricing
• fair dealing and copyright
• ownership
• legal deposit
Operations
• integration
• format
• reporting
• lending rights schemesarts.gov.au/literature/lending_rights/modernisation_process
Lending and Access
• barriers to lending
• digital rights management
• pay per use model
• interlibrary lending
BYOD
BYOD by jennip98 Jenny ParkerCC-by
Education Services Australia
www.esa.edu.au
Curriculum Press
www.curriculumpress.edu.au
Read the licence
curriculumpress.edu.au/ebook
Scootle
www.scootle.edu.au
SCIS catalogues e-books
opac.scis.curriculum.edu.au
e-book or app?
ISBN mayhem
9780385752145 (hard cover) 0385752148 (hard cover) 9780385752152 (library binding) 0385752156 (library binding) 9780375898433 (e-book) 0375898433 (e-book) 9780385619011 (hbk.) 0385619014 (hbk.) 9780385619028 (pbk.)
School library catalogues provide access to learning resources for the school
community
Students and staff expect to search in only one place to find school resources
The principles and standards that have served well for physical resources can be applied to digital resources
SCIS standards for cataloguing e-books
5. STANDARDS FOR SPECIFIC FORMATS
5.A INTRODUCTION
5.B ... WEBSITES
5.C ... VIDEORECORDINGS
5.D ... LEARNING OBJECTS
5.E ... E-BOOKS (Nov. 2010)
www.esa.edu.au/scis/help.html
Location and access
Restrictions on access
If the item is available only on subscription, include a note.
Example
A subscription is required to access this resource.
URL (MARC tag 856) specific to your catalogue
SCIS is a selection source for e-books
Enhanced content in SCIS
opac.scis.curriculum.edu.au/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1535544
Wheeler’s ePlatform
http://eds.wheelers.co
SCIS records for Overdrive
E-books in your school catalogue
icentre.suzannecoryhs.vic.edu.au/oliver
School digital library
web.mlmclilydale.catholic.edu.au/?p=library
Discussion
How do we provide users with seamless access from catalogue record to e-book?
If you create or acquire an e-book what strategy do you have for cataloguing it?
What is the demand for e-books in your school community?
What is your school’s plan for integrated access to all learning resources?
Self publishing
Oyeniyi, Robyn 2013
Love Versus Goliath: Two People in Love Against the Weight of Bureaucracy
What next?
The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the
writer and reader. Everyone who stands between those two has
both risk and opportunity.
Grandinetti, Russell 2011 Amazon signs up authors, writing publishers out of the deal, New York Times, 16
Oct 2011
Keeping in touch
SCIS professional learning programwww.esa.edu.au/scis/professional_learning.html
SCIS updates
@schoolscatinfo facebook.com/schoolscatinfo