Hi Laverne,
You are asking some great questions in regards to eBook acquisitions. First off though, I wanted to clarify whether you are talking perpetual access for eBooks, you buy you own it or are you looking at subscribing to specific eBook packages for certain subject areas? Another question would be are you thinking of a Patron Driven approach, if so, that's another model you can acquire eBooks through. These are all models and it really depends on what you want to do and that can lead you down the path to which way is the best to go.
In regards to where you can acquire the eBooks, this again depends on what you want to accomplish with the eBooks. Aggregators offer some great services and features that interact with your OPAC, other eResources and they provide for direct purchase with the platform. Publishers are another route to go and you can acquire eBooks directly from them also, then you are dealing with the publisher directly. 3rd party vendors, like YBP offer you a variety of options for eBooks, much of what you are asking about will come down to workflows, collection development and where you are heading with eBooks in your library.
I can go on and on and this reply would probably make things more confusing then helpful, just in the fact that there are many options and many ways of acquiring eBooks. Feel free to contact me directly if you have questions, I was the National Sales Manager for eBooks with Blackwell before the recent acquisition, so I've talked with many librarians about the exact same thing you are trying to do. Also, take a look at teleread.org - http://www.teleread.org/2010/01/23/ebooks-and-higher-ed-platforms-an-overview-from-inside-by-erik-christopher/ and you can read part 1 and then search for part two of posts I did on eBooks there.
Hope this helped some.
Erik Christopher
ewchristopher_at_yahoo.com
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For years, we have provided access to ebooks, via our local OPAC, by
virtue of membership in a state-wide consortium. We are now considering
purchasing titles, not part of consortium purchases, on our own, and I'm
wondering about the pros and cons of purchasing through a library
jobber, such as YBP, vs individual aggregators, such as ebrary,
Netlibrary, EBL, Gale, etc.
I'd like to know what others of you are doing. Thanks, in advance, for
your insights.--Lcj
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*March 29 - April 23, 2010*
Fee: $109 ALCTS Members; $129 Non-members
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The Fundamentals of Acquisitions (FOA) web course focuses on the
library acquisitions basics:
* goals and methods of acquiring monographs and serials
* financial management of library collections budgets
* relationships among acquisitions librarians, library
booksellers,
subscription agents, and
publishers.
This course provides a broad overview of the operations involved in
acquiring materials after the selection decision is made.
In FOA, we distinguish between collection development, which involves
the selection of materials for the library; and acquisitions, which
orders, receives, and pays for those materials. In many libraries,
selecting and acquiring materials may be done in the same
department?in the smallest libraries perhaps even by the same
person. In larger libraries, selection may be done by a collection
development department and/or designated subject specialists, while a
separate department acquires the selected materials. Acquisitions, in
essence, is the business side of bringing materials into the library or
licensing access to library resources.
As a ?fundamentals? course, FOA is tailored for
librarians and
paraprofessionals new to the acquisitions field, in all types and
sizes of libraries. Although many formats and types of materials are
discussed, FOA focuses on the acquisition of monographs in a physical
format. Although FOA focuses on physical book acquisitions, the structural
components of the course?goals and methods of acquisitions, vendor
relations, financial management, and
ethics?constitute the key components of acquisition and licensing
processes for all library materials, in all formats, in all types of
libraries.
Instructors: Betsy Redman and Eleanor Cook
Length of web course: 4 weeks
For additional details and registration information see the ALCTS Web
Site:
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