6. Other issues
“In my district, budgets are not adjusted to the price of
ebooks. We get the same amount of money, without the
consideration of the cost. We need to have discussions at
the district & campus levels (where the money comes from)
so those who make those decisions see the ebook issues
and price discrepancies. We (school librarians) are expected
to purchase ebooks for the classrooms & for pleasure
reading by students, but we are not given the appropriate
funds to do so.”
23. Industry trends
Worse terms from
publishers/increased prices
Improved terms from publishers
Ability to purchase temporary
access multi-use titles
Ingram myILibrary
Self-publishing rapidly increasing
Choice--Design and print your
own book of collected
articles/chapters -- DeGruyter
Select
25. and more trends...
Patron Driven Acquisition--Ebsco,
BrainHive
Multi-user options increasing
Streaming audio and
video(Overdrive)
Apps for in-text
communication(Subtext/Gobstop
per)
26. Librarians speak
We
want
better!
• “We want multi-user access and a single platform for access.”
• “If you don’t take my print books off the shelf after 26 checkouts or 12
months, why do you feel justified in taking my ebooks away?”
• School libraries and public libraries are very different entities. Our loan
models and access is very different. When the Big five or Big six
publishers are making their prices and lending models for the adult
book reader, they need to consider students and schools.
• “It should be as easy for students to check out fiction (ebooks) as it is
for them to use our nonfiction (ebook) collection.”
• “Students need really easy interfaces and don’t want to have to click
through multiple portals.”
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