Presented by Stef Morrill and Andi Coffin, WiLS for the Southwest Wisconsin Association of Libraries annual meeting on November 16, 2018

1. E-Content and Libraries:
Community Engagement
and National Trends
Andi Coffin and Stef Morrill, WiLS
for SWAL 2018

2. Community Engagement

4. For Writers:
Copy and paste or import EPUB, Word, Open Office, or URL
Organize sections, add metadata, apply themes, create covers,
Export to PDF, EPUB, MOBI (for Kindle), and more
Publish to SELF-e, ebook stores or print on demand services; add “buy” links
Add users to your account as editors or contributors
Customize sharing and privacy settings
https://wplc.pressbooks.pub/

5. For Writers:
This year’s contest: Submissions open from April - July
Prizes:
● $1,000 cash prize donated by BiblioBoard
● A write-up in the December print issue of Library Journal
● Honors at ALA Midwinter 2019 THRIVE Reception in Seattle
● Opportunities to promote your book(s) at Wisconsin Public Libraries
● A Library Journal Digital Review (Winner + Runner Up)
● Invitation to speak at the Wisconsin Library Association Annual Conference in October
(Winner + Runner Up)
116 Submissions Received!

6. For Writers:
Library Journal’s SELF-e program allows submitted books to be shared with
patrons of participating libraries across Wisconsin. If a book is selected by Library
Journal, it will also be available alongside other great indie reads in participating
libraries across the U.S. and Canada.
Works can be submitted to SELF-e at any time and there are options in Pressbooks
and in the Wisconsin Author Project that allows authors to submit their books
directly.
https://selfe.librariescreate.com/self-e/org/wplc/

7. For Readers:
Easy access - No holds! No logging in!
Nine Modules: https://library.biblioboard.com/modules
New Pop-Up Picks every three months
Indie Wisconsin collection to feature local creators across genres (via SELF-e!)
https://library.biblioboard.com/

8. Community Reads

9. Community Involvement and Partnerships
UW-Parkside, Kenosha (Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel)
Waukesha Public Library (Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng)
Mead Public Library (True Grit, Charles Portis)
UW-Colleges, Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa CC (The Round House, Louise Erdrich)

10. National Trends

12. A little background.

13. SimplyE

14. OverDrive and BiblioBoard experiment

15. Content availability….
2013 2016 2017 201820152014
Penguin
removes
embargo
Hachette
sells to
libraries
July: MacMillan
sells to libraries
Sept: MacMillan
sells to
consortia
Nov: Simon &
Schuster
dumps “Buy it
now”
March: WPLC
purchases
Hachette ebooks
July: Tor
embargo

16. DPLA Ebook Exchange

17. Not just the Exchange….
https://pro.dp.la/ebooks

18. Thanks!
Stef Morrill and Andi Coffin, WiLS
smorrill@wils.org / acoffin@wils.org