http://www.infotoday.com/cil2012/session.asp?ID=A304 with Moderator: Dick Kaser, Vice President of Content, Information Today, Inc. Chad Mairn, Chief Technology Officer, Novare Library Services Ken Roberts, CEO, Hamilton Public Library Matt Barnes, VP of Marketing, ebrary Computers in Libraries 2012

1. The K-12 Library
Perspective:
eBook Issues
and Challenges
Buffy J. Hamilton | The Unquiet Librarian
March 2012, Computes in Libraries Conference
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5. eBook as a
fundamentally
access to eContent different
literacy/reading
experience

6. 1
rapidly shifting
eReader and eBook
landscape

7. 2
funding challenges

8. 3 restrictive purchasing policies

9. 4
fear factors
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10. 5 quantifiable data

11. tension of competing interests/concerns
between librarians and patrons in terms of
eBook content and solutions
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12. 7
accessibility/legal issues
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13. 8
easy management of content is needed
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14. 9
not all publishers are in the eBook game
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15. leasing vs. owning content
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16. wanted: turnkey solutions…

17. …but there is no “one size fits all” solution
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18. scalable
solutions/models
are difficult to find
and replicate
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19. School library eBook content
providers
Big eBook content providers
eReader specific eBook
content
Publisher specific eBook
content

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21. contact information
buffy.hamilton@gmail.com
http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com
http://buffyjhamilton.wordpress.com
Twitter: @buffyjhamilton