This document discusses challenges and opportunities related to integrating ebooks into school libraries. It addresses myths about ebooks and student reading habits. Barriers to student ebook adoption are examined, along with different service models for providing ebooks. The document also explores concerns that school librarians have in relation to ebooks, such as issues of network access, accessibility, and control over content and platforms.

1. ereading:
new
materials,
new
challenges
Wendy Stephens TASL October 26, 2012

2. What is it?

3. What is it?

4. What is it?

5. What is it?

6. What is it?

7. What is it?

8. Bibliographic control

9. Classification

10. Circulation

11. Creating the best possible narrative experience

12. The ebook mandate
What to integrate?

13. Adding ebooks to your collection
How to integrate?

14. Adding ebooks to your collection
How to integrate?

15. On-demand content

20. • Myths about ebooks &
ereaders
• Students reading electronically
• Barriers for students
• Service models
• Concerns for school librarians
• Some things to know about

22. http://www.good.is/post/follow-florida-s-lead-why-more-states-should-switch-to-digital-textbooks-in-schools-now/
Myths about ebooks
Instead of schools
having to buy new
class sets of The Great
Gatsby and To Kill a
Mockingbird year after
year, each new group
of students can simply
download a copy
without spending a
dime.

23. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ta_RcQqiWxw/TKZwyWz4o_I/AAAAAAAABdo/0LGVouxpFsA/s400/Digital%2Bbooks.jpg
Myths about ebooks

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Myths about ebooks

25. Myths about ebooks

26. Myths about ebooks

27. http://www.best-ereaders.com/2010/02/10/amazon-kindle-dx/
Typical Teen #1
Waiting on Wednesday
Peak Oil
3rd ereader in the
household
Backlist (completist)
Doesn t share

28. http://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/barnes-and-noble-nook-microsoft-pc/
Typical Teen #2
Brigadoon
Free books (at the
library, at B&N, through
the Nook bookstore,
scribd)
Volume reader of genre
fiction
Not concerned about
quality

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Typical Teen #3
Got a a Kindle as a gift
No credit card access
6 months later, has only
one public domain ebook
Frankly prefers print

30. http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=485
Barriers for students

31. http://www.visualphotos.com/image/2x2732606/empty_computer_classroom
Service models

32. http://www.letmypeopleknowcleveland.com/Connect/CommunityConcierge.html
Service models

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Service models

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36. Service models

37. http://www.letmypeopleknowcleveland.com/Connect/CommunityConcierge.html
Service models

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42. http://www.amazon.com/Cinderella-Disney-Special-Platinum-Collectors/dp/B0007Z9R70
Concerns

43. Concerns

47. http://www.printfection.com/tshirtlitter/Lowest-Common-Denominator/_s_125917
Concerns

48. Concerns include network access

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They don t make paper books anymore…
Are we post-print?

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Concerns
Still grappling
with
e-typesetting
(e-editing,
e-marketing,
e-writing)

51. Concerns include accessibility

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pushing e to its full potential

53. don’t underestimate cover appeal

54. be afraid of Amazon’s Whispercast