1. eBooks on Demand: creating digital
collections on users’ request
Õnne Mets, National Library of Estonia

2. Outline
 What’s EOD about?
 Users and their needs
 Visible outcomes for end-users

3. About EOD
 Digital document delivery service
since 2007 – until…
 Books
 Public domain
 High quality digitisation and OCR, cover to cover
 Culture programme co-funded project
2009 – apr 2014

4. EOD service
Incorporation
into Digital
Library
Library: scans &
transfers images
Currently offered
by 36 libraries
in 12 countries

5. Since 2007
 nearly 9000 finished orders
 over 5000 enquirers
 about 1,6 million pages digitised

6. Users
 Over 60%: researchers requiring e-books
for professional or scientific use;
 about 16%: book collectors, readers from
special interest groups (amateur
historians, collectors, ethnographers etc)
Customer Survey 2008

7. Clicks in social media
Top ads (IT, FR, RU) in Facebook:
1.Art
2.General add (books from 16-20 century)
3.Sheet music
4.Poetry
5.Fashion
6.Theatre (original texts of plays)
7.Education (old text-books)
8.Law
9.Fiction

8. Online Market Survey 2007

9. Outcomes
 Full access from digital libraries,
repositories
 Links to full-text in library catalogues
 Contributing to the portals, which use the
metadata, including
– Europeana
– EOD search engine search.books2ebooks.eu

10. EOD search
 28 libraries (out of 36), over 4 million
records in 30 languages
– eBooks, 23 382
– Books, 3 962 356 items, Europeana API

11. Outcomes 2
 Links to full-text in Wikipedia
 Tweets with the links twitter.com/eod_ebooks
 Posts with the links in 5 Facebook pages:
English (facebook.com/eod.ebooks),
German, Czech, Slovenian, Hungarian
 Actions by each library towards
their target groups and general public

12. Thank you!
mets@nlib.ee
17-18 Oct, Prague
EOD open meetings, international conference and
hackdays on digital libraries and repositories
http://eod2013.techlib.cz