Ebook Acquisitions: Methods, Management and Workflows

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!

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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.

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