The document discusses issues and considerations around adopting e-books in academic libraries. It outlines topics like the benefits and drawbacks of e-books, models for acquiring e-books from publishers or aggregators, aspects of evaluating different pricing and collection profiles, limitations of e-book rights management, and features needed to improve the user interface and experience. The document concludes that flexibility is key in both acquiring e-books from various sources and allowing access to as few platforms as possible, and raises outstanding questions around e-book ordering and discoverability.

1. The Great ( )omission: Things we need to know about e-books (that they didn’t tell us or haven’t figured out) Jason Price, PhD Life Sciences Librarian Claremont Univ. Consortium Go out into all the world and acquire e-books (?!) Christian College Librarians Conference May 29, 2008 Pepperdine University

2. Genesis of this talk (Remember Caviat)

3. Outline Why and why not? From whom and to where? Evaluation aspects Pricing Models Collection Profiles Use Rights (DRM) Interface Usability & Features Next steps & Implications Immediate Future

4. Why? (I’ve got a list, but want to hear yours) ____ ____ ____

5. Why not? _____ _____ _____

6. From whom and to where? from publishers directly? From a Book Jobber? From an aggregator? Reality = To OPAC? To publisher platform? To (a single) aggregator platform? To a universal ebook platform?

7. Conclusion: From whom and to where From: anywhere as long as the destination is flexible To: as few places as possible Need to emphasize flexibility for purchases or… look to lease access

8. Evaluation: Pricing Models Packaged Collections Title by Title Lease entire collection Patron-driven purchase Consortial collections (?)

9. Rough Comparison Model EBL Ebrary My I Library Net Library Lease NO YES NO NO Purchase (Unlimited Usrs) YES (limit is borrow period) YES(?) (No dwnload NO 1 or (2-3) NO 1 or 2 Patron- driven purchase YES 2 nd ‘use’ Coming YES 1 st view YES 1 st view Title by title Yes Yes Yes Yes What else (Swap?)

10. Evaluation: Collection profiles Age ‘ Uniqueness’ Match to local collection Quality (?)

11. Collection Profiles: Age

14. Evaluation: Use rights Simultaneous Use Copy & Paste/Print Download E-reserves / Course Mngmt Course Packs Interlibrary Loan

15. Use Rights Comparison Rights EBL Ebrary My I Library Net Library Download YES NO Depends on Pub MOSTLY ??? Copy&Paste/ Print YES YES 10pp/40pp NO Page at a time NO Page at a time Ereserve / Course packs YES YES Unknown Unknown ILL ? ? ? ? Simultaneous use YES YES Limited Limited

16. Interface usability Delivery units Simultaneous use Navigation

17. Interface features Full text search Hit term highlighting Extraction (text & images) Web services External lookups (Dict/Ency) Export Citation (unit?) Personalization Hilighting Notes

18. Next steps (for us) Lease Ebrary Academic Complete Buy “Multigraphs” (Edited volumes?) as e-only

19. Implications for the future And end to librarian collection development Buy them buy the chapter? Figure out how to possess the contents

20. Conclusions (What have we learned?) ___ ___ ___

21. Outstanding questions: E-book ordering profiles? How will they be found? Features ≠ Effectiveness