The Digital Content & Libraries Working Group (DCWG) was formed in 2011 to address issues related to digital content and ebooks for libraries. It has over 30 representatives from libraries and is co-chaired by Sari Feldman and Robert Wolven. Key issues include publishers setting restrictive terms for libraries' ebook access, including high prices, embargoes, and limitations on titles. Libraries are concerned about access and preservation. The DCWG is conducting studies, releasing reports, and informing ALA on these issues to improve ebook access and business models for libraries. Future work may include controlled experiments on discoverability and evaluating different publisher terms and models.
June 17, 2015
NISO Virtual Conference: The Eternal To-Do List: Making Ebooks work in Libraries
Keynote Address: E-Books: Promise into Practice
Suzanne M. Ward, Professor and Head of Collection Management, Purdue University Libraries
The Notable Reports Panel Strikes Again: WAPL 2017WiLS
From the Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries 2017 conference and presented by Vickie Stangel, Director, Dodgeville Public Library; Kelly TerKeurst, Director, Dwight Foster Public Library (Fort Atkinson); Gus Falkenberg, Technology and Design Director, Indianhead Federated Library System (Eau Claire); Cindy Fesemyer, Director, Columbus Public Library; Sara Gold, Community Liaison and Service Specialist, WiLS; Andrea Coffin, Community Liaison and Service Specialist, WiLS
Back by popular demand! Each year, a number of new reports about public libraries are produced by organizations like Pew, OCLC, Library Journal, The Aspen Institute, and others. These reports contain valuable information that can help us plan, develop services, and improve existing services, but unfortunately, few of us have the time to read every single one. The goal of this session is to help attendees get an overview of those reports and their implications for our work. Each panelist will share a summary of a report they believe is significant and discuss how they have used or will use the information at their library. Attendees will be encouraged to share other reports and insights that have mattered to them, too!
NISO Virtual Conference: The Eternal To-Do List: Making Ebooks work in Libraries
eBooks and the future of libraries
Micah May, Director of Strategy & Business Development at New York Public Library
June 17, 2015
NISO Virtual Conference: The Eternal To-Do List: Making Ebooks work in Libraries
Keynote Address: E-Books: Promise into Practice
Suzanne M. Ward, Professor and Head of Collection Management, Purdue University Libraries
The Notable Reports Panel Strikes Again: WAPL 2017WiLS
From the Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries 2017 conference and presented by Vickie Stangel, Director, Dodgeville Public Library; Kelly TerKeurst, Director, Dwight Foster Public Library (Fort Atkinson); Gus Falkenberg, Technology and Design Director, Indianhead Federated Library System (Eau Claire); Cindy Fesemyer, Director, Columbus Public Library; Sara Gold, Community Liaison and Service Specialist, WiLS; Andrea Coffin, Community Liaison and Service Specialist, WiLS
Back by popular demand! Each year, a number of new reports about public libraries are produced by organizations like Pew, OCLC, Library Journal, The Aspen Institute, and others. These reports contain valuable information that can help us plan, develop services, and improve existing services, but unfortunately, few of us have the time to read every single one. The goal of this session is to help attendees get an overview of those reports and their implications for our work. Each panelist will share a summary of a report they believe is significant and discuss how they have used or will use the information at their library. Attendees will be encouraged to share other reports and insights that have mattered to them, too!
NISO Virtual Conference: The Eternal To-Do List: Making Ebooks work in Libraries
eBooks and the future of libraries
Micah May, Director of Strategy & Business Development at New York Public Library
This presentation was provided by Jill Morris of PALCI, during the NISO event "Owing, Licensing, and Sharing Digital Content." The virtual conference was held on Thursday, January 21, 2021.
John Cox NUI GalwayHow academic libraries position themselves in their parent institutions is vital to their recognition, resourcing and prospects. This paper will look at the progress, opportunities, barriers and dilemmas for libraries as they seek to position themselves optimally in the organisation. It will take account of both positive developments and negative factors, arguing that strong connectivity with the wider institutional agenda is key to changing perceptions and ensuring that the library is not taken for granted or sold short. Otherwise the library may represent a squeezed middle, feeling the pressure from all sides but not reaping the benefits of its transformation.
This presentation was provided by Erin Weller and Joan Lindsay of Michigan State University, during the NISO event "Owing, Licensing, and Sharing Digital Content." The virtual conference was held on Thursday, January 21, 2021.
Why choose between presentations when you can come to one FEAST? Future & Emerging Access Services Trends (FEAST) is back for a third exciting year, providing multiple speakers and topics in a 60 minute session. Hear practitioners and experts discuss what's new or just around the corner in circulation, shelving, reserves, interlibrary loan, offsite storage and more in short five minute courses. Fresh and timely. Never frozen. There's always plenty to choose from at the FEAST
Gary Price, MIT Program on Information ScienceMicah Altman
Gary Price, who is chief editor of InfoDocket, contributing editor of Search Engine Land, co-founder of Full Text Reports and who has worked with internet search firms and library systems developers alike, gave this talk on Issues in Curating the Open Web at Scale as part of the Program on Information Science Brown Bag Series.
This presentation was provided by Emily Ayubi of the American Psychological Association during a NISO webinar entitled Understanding the Marketplace: Creating the New Information Product, held on Wednesday, March 15, 2017
About the Webinar
In the six years from 2006 to 2012, the number of self-published books grew an astounding 270% to more than 235,000, almost as many as were published "traditionally." The easy access to publication tools and distribution mechanisms has ushered in a new era of how content is created and disseminated. No longer do authors need to work through a publisher to have their content accepted, processed, and distributed. The impacts of this revolution in publishing extend well beyond what used to be called "vanity publishing." A variety of best-selling books in recent years have come out from successful self-publishers sharing their tips on how others can follow in their footsteps.
How can publishers capitalize on this author independence? How do libraries incorporate self-published works into their acquisition processes? When there is no publisher reputation behind a title, how does a library or user separate the wheat from the chaff? This webinar will explore these issues and the impacts of the self-publishing movement on both publishers and libraries.
Agenda
Introduction
Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO
When Authors Assume Their Own Risk
Laura Dawson, Product Manager for Identifiers, Bowker
Self-Publishing with Smashwords
Mark Coker, Founder, CEO and Chief Author Advocate, Smashwords
Helping Libraries Help Themselves: The Library Publishing Toolkit
Allison Brown, Editor & Production Manager, Milne Library, SUNY Geneseo
Ivy Plus Libraries & Collective Collections - Speaking Points for ACRL NY 201...Galadriel Chilton
Working in a complicated, organic, evolving ecosystem that is today’s library collections environment, the Ivy Plus Libraries Collection Development Group is working towards collective collections across the partnership. This presentation will explore why this deep collaboration is necessary, what initiatives and programs are currently underway, and the highlights and challenges Galadriel has observed in the first 1.5 years as the inaugural Director of Collections Initiatives for Ivy Plus Libraries.
The future of the integrated library systemWhitni Watkins
The traditional ILS as we know it will only die out because it will evolve. It will not disappear. More now than ever do libraries need automation and resource management. The thing is, our collections are becoming more and more heavily electronic, we need a system that will handle digital content in an efficient manner. The current ILS does not.
Current ILSs are built around the traditional library practice of print collections and services
designed around these collections, but the last ten to fifteen years have seen great shifts in both
library collections and services. Print and physical materials are no longer the dominant resources.
Actually, in many libraries, especially in academic and research libraries, the building of electronic
and digital collections have taken a larger role in library collection development.
As libraries have moved increasingly to accommodate digital collections, they’ve found the ILS products unable to be reconfigured well enough to smoothly and efficiently handle the integration of all the workflows that are different, yet, necessary, for both print and digital.
The current ILS serves the purpose for an academic library but instead of one system with seamless interaction we have one system with add on components to do some of the now necessary functions like electronic resource management and the discovery layer.
there are three trends that will lead to the change in the traditional ILS: “1. Increased digital collections; 2. Changed expectations regarding interfaces; 3. Shifted attitudes toward data and software.”
There are four distinguishing characteristics of the next-generation ILS we believe are critical. They are comprehensive library resources management; a system based on service-oriented architecture; the ability to meet the challenge of new library workflow; and a next-generation discovery layer.
Up until recently, libraries developed collections to serve the communities that they were located in. And that's going to shift because the collections that they create will define the communities they serve, which is the exact opposite of the way it used to be in the physical world. In the electronic world it will be completely opposite. (VINOD CHACHRA, VTLS)
Our collections are now booming with digital content and a very inept way to serve it. The traditional ILS wasn’t created to handle digital content. The new ILS, will serve as a library service platform where digital content will be a the forethought instead of an afterthought.
Breeding writes that “the next generation of library automation systems needs to be designed to match the workflows of today’s libraries,
which manage both digital and print resources.”
There are four distinguishing characteristics of the next-generation ILS we believe are critical. They are comprehensive library resources management; a system based on service-oriented architecture; the ability to meet the challenge of new library w
BIBFLOW and the Libhub Initiative: Leveraging our past to define our future
Eric Miller, President, Zepheira
Jeff Penka, Director of Channel and Product Development, Zepheira
This presentation describes an investigation of user-centred design methodologies intended to apply to metadata or information architecture evaluation and deployment. The primary focus of this work is investigation of user conceptual models and comparison with formally architected models.
This presentation presents results from a pilot study exploring automated formal metadata extraction in accessibility evaluation. We demonstrate a prototype created during the FixRep project that aims to support capture, storage and reuse of accessibility information where available, and to approach the problem of reconstructing required data from available sources.
A talk were given at automatic metadata extraction workshop by Intrallect and Jisc. This particular talk is about bibliographical metadata extraction in context of automated extraction.
A talk were given at Deposit tools workshop and describing the email client plugin which allow to deposit documents attached to email just with one click
This presentation was provided by Jill Morris of PALCI, during the NISO event "Owing, Licensing, and Sharing Digital Content." The virtual conference was held on Thursday, January 21, 2021.
John Cox NUI GalwayHow academic libraries position themselves in their parent institutions is vital to their recognition, resourcing and prospects. This paper will look at the progress, opportunities, barriers and dilemmas for libraries as they seek to position themselves optimally in the organisation. It will take account of both positive developments and negative factors, arguing that strong connectivity with the wider institutional agenda is key to changing perceptions and ensuring that the library is not taken for granted or sold short. Otherwise the library may represent a squeezed middle, feeling the pressure from all sides but not reaping the benefits of its transformation.
This presentation was provided by Erin Weller and Joan Lindsay of Michigan State University, during the NISO event "Owing, Licensing, and Sharing Digital Content." The virtual conference was held on Thursday, January 21, 2021.
Why choose between presentations when you can come to one FEAST? Future & Emerging Access Services Trends (FEAST) is back for a third exciting year, providing multiple speakers and topics in a 60 minute session. Hear practitioners and experts discuss what's new or just around the corner in circulation, shelving, reserves, interlibrary loan, offsite storage and more in short five minute courses. Fresh and timely. Never frozen. There's always plenty to choose from at the FEAST
Gary Price, MIT Program on Information ScienceMicah Altman
Gary Price, who is chief editor of InfoDocket, contributing editor of Search Engine Land, co-founder of Full Text Reports and who has worked with internet search firms and library systems developers alike, gave this talk on Issues in Curating the Open Web at Scale as part of the Program on Information Science Brown Bag Series.
This presentation was provided by Emily Ayubi of the American Psychological Association during a NISO webinar entitled Understanding the Marketplace: Creating the New Information Product, held on Wednesday, March 15, 2017
About the Webinar
In the six years from 2006 to 2012, the number of self-published books grew an astounding 270% to more than 235,000, almost as many as were published "traditionally." The easy access to publication tools and distribution mechanisms has ushered in a new era of how content is created and disseminated. No longer do authors need to work through a publisher to have their content accepted, processed, and distributed. The impacts of this revolution in publishing extend well beyond what used to be called "vanity publishing." A variety of best-selling books in recent years have come out from successful self-publishers sharing their tips on how others can follow in their footsteps.
How can publishers capitalize on this author independence? How do libraries incorporate self-published works into their acquisition processes? When there is no publisher reputation behind a title, how does a library or user separate the wheat from the chaff? This webinar will explore these issues and the impacts of the self-publishing movement on both publishers and libraries.
Agenda
Introduction
Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO
When Authors Assume Their Own Risk
Laura Dawson, Product Manager for Identifiers, Bowker
Self-Publishing with Smashwords
Mark Coker, Founder, CEO and Chief Author Advocate, Smashwords
Helping Libraries Help Themselves: The Library Publishing Toolkit
Allison Brown, Editor & Production Manager, Milne Library, SUNY Geneseo
Ivy Plus Libraries & Collective Collections - Speaking Points for ACRL NY 201...Galadriel Chilton
Working in a complicated, organic, evolving ecosystem that is today’s library collections environment, the Ivy Plus Libraries Collection Development Group is working towards collective collections across the partnership. This presentation will explore why this deep collaboration is necessary, what initiatives and programs are currently underway, and the highlights and challenges Galadriel has observed in the first 1.5 years as the inaugural Director of Collections Initiatives for Ivy Plus Libraries.
The future of the integrated library systemWhitni Watkins
The traditional ILS as we know it will only die out because it will evolve. It will not disappear. More now than ever do libraries need automation and resource management. The thing is, our collections are becoming more and more heavily electronic, we need a system that will handle digital content in an efficient manner. The current ILS does not.
Current ILSs are built around the traditional library practice of print collections and services
designed around these collections, but the last ten to fifteen years have seen great shifts in both
library collections and services. Print and physical materials are no longer the dominant resources.
Actually, in many libraries, especially in academic and research libraries, the building of electronic
and digital collections have taken a larger role in library collection development.
As libraries have moved increasingly to accommodate digital collections, they’ve found the ILS products unable to be reconfigured well enough to smoothly and efficiently handle the integration of all the workflows that are different, yet, necessary, for both print and digital.
The current ILS serves the purpose for an academic library but instead of one system with seamless interaction we have one system with add on components to do some of the now necessary functions like electronic resource management and the discovery layer.
there are three trends that will lead to the change in the traditional ILS: “1. Increased digital collections; 2. Changed expectations regarding interfaces; 3. Shifted attitudes toward data and software.”
There are four distinguishing characteristics of the next-generation ILS we believe are critical. They are comprehensive library resources management; a system based on service-oriented architecture; the ability to meet the challenge of new library workflow; and a next-generation discovery layer.
Up until recently, libraries developed collections to serve the communities that they were located in. And that's going to shift because the collections that they create will define the communities they serve, which is the exact opposite of the way it used to be in the physical world. In the electronic world it will be completely opposite. (VINOD CHACHRA, VTLS)
Our collections are now booming with digital content and a very inept way to serve it. The traditional ILS wasn’t created to handle digital content. The new ILS, will serve as a library service platform where digital content will be a the forethought instead of an afterthought.
Breeding writes that “the next generation of library automation systems needs to be designed to match the workflows of today’s libraries,
which manage both digital and print resources.”
There are four distinguishing characteristics of the next-generation ILS we believe are critical. They are comprehensive library resources management; a system based on service-oriented architecture; the ability to meet the challenge of new library w
BIBFLOW and the Libhub Initiative: Leveraging our past to define our future
Eric Miller, President, Zepheira
Jeff Penka, Director of Channel and Product Development, Zepheira
This presentation describes an investigation of user-centred design methodologies intended to apply to metadata or information architecture evaluation and deployment. The primary focus of this work is investigation of user conceptual models and comparison with formally architected models.
This presentation presents results from a pilot study exploring automated formal metadata extraction in accessibility evaluation. We demonstrate a prototype created during the FixRep project that aims to support capture, storage and reuse of accessibility information where available, and to approach the problem of reconstructing required data from available sources.
A talk were given at automatic metadata extraction workshop by Intrallect and Jisc. This particular talk is about bibliographical metadata extraction in context of automated extraction.
A talk were given at Deposit tools workshop and describing the email client plugin which allow to deposit documents attached to email just with one click
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Neil King from Vision Australia presented on PDF accessibility at the Web Content Managers Forum in Melbourne - April 14, 2011
This presentation was provided by Gail Wanner of SirsiDynix, during the NISO event "Collaborative Library Resource Sharing: Standards, Developments, and New Models for Cooperating," held October 7 - October 8, 2008.
Building a Better Knowledgebase: An Investigation of Current Practical Uses a...NASIG
While knowledgebases have become essential tools for electronic resources management, little research has been done about how practitioners have integrated them into their everyday workflows. Inspired by a partnership with the GOKb project, which aims to build an open source knowledgebase, librarians at North Carolina State University set out to investigate the practical requirements, areas of improvement, and desired enhancements that librarians have for their knowledgebases. During this program, the presenters will describe the results of a survey about knowledgebase use sent to electronic resources managers across the country. The survey results will be supplemented by individual points of view gathered from in-depth interviews with selected respondents.The program will conclude with a look at how the findings of the investigation can be applied to the GOKb project. At the end of the session, the attendee should walk away with an understanding of trends in knowledgebase management, areas where the greatest improvement is needed, and ideas for enhancing knowledgebase functionality in an open source setting.
Maria Collins
Head of Acquisitions and Discovery, North Carolina State University
Maria Collins is the head of Acquisitions and Discovery at North Carolina State University Libraries. The Acquisitions & Discovery department was formed through the merger of acquisitions and cataloging in June 2012. Her other positions held at NCSU since 2005 include serials librarian, associate head of Acquisitions and the head of Content Acquisitions and Licensing. She previously worked as serials librarian and serials coordinator at Mississippi State University Libraries. Maria is editor of Serials Review and was the column editor for SR's Electronic Journal Forum. She also chairs the team developing NCSU's locally developed electronic resource management system, E-Matrix, and participates in the Kuali OLE and Global Open KnowledgeBase (GOKb) projects.
Katherine Hill
North Carolina State University
Katherine Hill is a library fellow in Acquisitions and Discovery, at North Carolina State University Libraries. In that role, she has been involved in planning and designing the open source knowledge base GOKb as well as e-acquisitions workflows for the open source ILS, Kuali OLE.
The Current State of E-Books in Academic Libraries: A North American PerspectiveMichael Levine-Clark
Levine-Clark, Michael, “The Current State of E-Books in Academic Libraries: A North American Perspective,” Invited. Emerging Trends in Digital Publishing and the Digital Library, National Taiwan University Library, Taipei, January 8, 2013.
學術圖書館之電子書現況
The Current State of eBooks in Academic Libraries
Professor Michael Levine-Clark, 美國丹佛大學圖書館學術交流與典藏服務部門主任
http://www.lib.ntu.edu.tw/events/2013_CALAB/
Straight Talk about the "B" Word: using the Edge benchmarks in your libraryTechSoup for Libraries
A presentation about the Edge Initiative benchmarks at the Beyond BTOP conference in Colorado Springs, CO and how they might work in your public library with some activities to learn from your peers.
Presented by Chris Bulock and Lynn Fields.
Discovery is a key component of a library's services, and user expectations are high. Even if a web-scale discovery system isn't in the cards, there is plenty a library can do to improve discovery for their users. Librarians at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville have been engaged in an ongoing discovery improvement project encompassing the website, catalog, database lists and more, all based on extensive user feedback. The presenters will share successful strategies for evaluating and improving discovery, no expensive software or programming skills necessary.
Discovery on a budget: Improved searching without a Web-scale discovery productNASIG
Discovery is a key component of a library's services, and user expectations are high. Even if a web-scale discovery system isn't in the cards, there is plenty a library can do to improve discovery for their users. Librarians at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville have been engaged in an ongoing discovery improvement project encompassing the website, catalog, database lists and more, all based on extensive user feedback. The presenters will share successful strategies for evaluating and improving discovery, no expensive software or programming skills necessary.
Chris Bulock and Lynette Fields, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Amazon.com Vs. EBSCO's GOBI Library Solutions: Evaluating New and Used Book V...Dr. Monica D.T. Rysavy
This presentation was given by Russell Michalak, MLIS (Goldey-Beacom College), Monica D.T. Rysavy, Ph.D. (Goldey-Beacom College), and Trevor A. Dawes, MLIS (University of Delaware) at the Charleston Library Conference in Charleston, South Carolina in October 2017.
1. MLA WORKSHOP: PRINT TO DIGITAL
EBOOKS: LIBRARIES VS. PUBLISHERS
UPDATE - DCWG
Rod Gauvin
8 March 2013
2. Outline
• Digital Content & Libraries Working Group
• Structure and members
• Committees
• Role and progress
• Issues for Public Libraries
• Future Direction
3. DCWG
• Formed in 2011 (EQUACC)
• Strategic, over- arching priorities related to
digital content – focus on ebooks
• Active involvement of ALA leadership
• Working group to increase
communication, cooperation and
collaboration with other divisions, offices and
ALA units
4. DCWG
• Diverse representation across libraries with
more than 30 representatives
• Co-Chairs Sari Feldman (Cuyahoga County
Public) and Robert Wolven (Columbia)
• Includes Jamie LaRue (Douglas County -
Colorado); Alan Inouye (OITP); Christopher
Harris (BOCES-NY) ;Eric Hellman (Gluejar); Erika
Linke (Carnegie Mellon); Rob Maier(Mass Board
and COSLA); very strong group!
5. Working sub-committees
• Business models and terms
• Accessibility issues
• School library business models
• Privacy
• Education to librarians and external
communication (outside the library field)
6. What are the issues?
• Public Libraries (especially) and School Libraries
(lesser extent) cannot purchase ebooks with fair
and favorable terms
• Amazon and death of bookstores – trade
publishers worried – paradigm shift
• Shift from print to ebooks is leaving libraries out
of the economic equation
• There is less friction with ebooks
• Perception that library sales cannibalize
consumer sales
7. About the Publishers – “Big Six”
• “Big Six Trade” - not monolithic
• HarperCollins introduced a 26 lending cycle
• Macmillan is testing imprints
• Hachette & Penguin sell backlist
• Simon & Schuster is not participating
• Random House has high prices
• Corporate ownership and hierarchy
• Smaller/midsize publishers are participating
8. Publisher Viewpoint
• Trade sales to libraries less than 10% of total
• Print declining faster than electronic increase
• Ebooks don’t wear out; more circulations;
lower processing costs – justifies higher
prices – can be outrageous
• Licensing vs. ownership
• Ebook lending kills consumer sales
• Some authors view libraries as the enemy
9. Libraries viewpoints (1)
• High prices
• Embargoes
• Limitations on titles sold
• Rights to accommodate people with
disabilities
• Archiving and preservation
10. Libraries Viewpoints (2)
• Ability to participate in consortia limited
• Interfaces are clunky
• OverDrive and 3M in the middle
• Multiple formats and technology and lack of
interoperability - integration with library
systems
• Contracting and negotiation
12. Goodreads – new survey
• Released this week
• Mirrors the Pew Survey:
http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2012/06/22/
part-2-where-people-discover-and-get-their-
books/
• Suggests that libraries rank low on
recommendation versus other sources
13. Pew Survey (December 2011)
• Those 16 years and older: Where do you get
your book recommendations?
• 64% - family members, friends and co-
workers
• 28% online bookstores & other websites
• 23% staffers in bookstores
• 19% recommendations from
libraries/librarians
14. Are we asking the right questions?
• Surveys are rich and cover a multiplicity of
topics – devices, buying patterns, preferences
• Discoverability is indirectly covered
• Role of libraries is not adequately addressed
• Hard sales data is not available
• Left with “Libraries Steal Doctrine”!
15. DCWG Accomplishments
• Informed ALA executives for Big Six meetings
• Ebook Business Models for Public Libraries and
Scorecard for evaluating terms and needs
• American Libraries E-Content Blog:
http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/e-content
• American Libraries Supplement June 2012
• Tracking all media coverage and responding as
appropriate
• Released tool kit for Libraries in November 2012
17. Future direction for DCWG
• One book test - controlled experiment
http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/e-content/one-
ebook-prove-them-all
• Scorecard for evaluating publisher terms
• Discoverability issue
• Continuing to inform ALA executives
• Independents and self-published authors a la Douglas
County model
• Libraries as distributors
• Studying pay per use models
• Copyright in a digital age