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Ebook Acquisitions: Methods, Management and Workflows*
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February 27-28, 2013
Hosted by Andy Langhurst and Kay Downey
Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It's free and open to everyone!
Registration information is at the end of the message.
Each day, sessions begin and end at:
Pacific: 7am -- 3pm
Mountain: 8am -- 4pm
Central: 9am -- 5pm
Eastern: 10am -- 6pm
*Description:*
Ebook providers offer a wide variety of options for obtaining and
providing access to ebooks for academic libraries. How do you sort
through the available options to determine what methods would be a good
fit for your own institutional needs? Lease vs. ownership, internal
workflows and acquisition methods, managing and promoting use after the
titles are acquired are only a few of the decisions that are part of the
acquisition process. Please join us for an enlightening discussion about
the challenges and opportunities of ebook acquisitions. Topics will include:
*Acquisition method: Approvals plans, firms orders, patron or demand
driven acquisitions as well as single title ordering vs. ebook packages
-- how are libraries approaching ebook acquisitions?
*Workflows for ebook acquisition. Who is involved? How is it documented?
* Communicating platform specifications, use and user restrictions, and
changes as well as ideas for promoting ebooks after the acquisition has
taken place.
* ebook Aggregators vs. Publisher-direct ordering.
* Leased vs. Ownership (perpetual access) options for ebooks.
* How to help others in your institution understand the potential of
ebooks, including communicating and promoting to institutional colleagues.
* Long term maintenance related to ebooks -- weeding, cataloging,
managing changes, and other policies.
* Usage statistics - collecting, reviewing, sharing.
*Andy Langhurst *is Licensing/Acquisitions Librarian at the University
of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, IN. She currently manages the Electronic
Resources and Acquisitions Pay unit at Notre Dame's Hesburgh Libraries
and previously worked as a technical services librarian at a corporate
library in upstate New York.
*Kay Downey *is the Collection Management Librarian at Kent State
University, Kent, Ohio. She works with public services and technical
services librarians to identify and manage selection for library
resources to ensure growth and development of the collection. She also
represents Kent State University Libraries on the OhioLINK Cooperative
Information Resources Management Committee (CIRM). She previously
worked as Serials and Electronic Resources Librarian for the Ingalls
Library, Cleveland Museum of Art.
*What is an e-forum?*
An ALCTS e-forum provides an opportunity for librarians to discuss
matters of interest, led by a moderator, through the e-forum discussion
list. The e-forum discussion list works like an email listserv: register
your email address with the list, and then you will receive messages and
communicate with other participants through an email discussion. Most
e-forums last two to three days. Registration is necessary to
participate, but it's free. See a list of upcoming e-forums at:
http://bit.ly/upcomingeforum.
*To register:*
Instructions for registration are available at:
http://bit.ly/eforuminfo. Once you have registered for one e-forum, you
do not need to register again, unless you choose to leave the email
list. Participation is free and open to anyone.
Received on Fri Feb 15 2013 - 03:01:43 EST