{"id":94,"date":"2008-06-28T16:31:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T23:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=94"},"modified":"2008-06-28T16:31:26","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T23:31:26","slug":"ala-2008-ebook-workflows-selection-to-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2008\/06\/ala-2008-ebook-workflows-selection-to-access\/","title":{"rendered":"ALA 2008 &#8211; Ebook Workflows: Selection to Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first ALA session proper is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/alcts\/alcts.cfm\">ACLTS<\/a> session on e-books. Currently our stock of e-books at Imperial is relatively small, but it is growing rapidly, and I think in the next year or so we could easily see an explosion &#8211; we are certainly at the point where we would consider the e-book to the print alternative in some circumstances. We&#8217;ve also got an e-books day planned for mid-July where some of the major vendors of e-book platforms\/content are going to come in and show us their systems etc. so hopefully this session will be good preparation for that.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be interested if the session includes &#8216;ebooks&#8217; in<\/p>\n<p>First up, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.csueastbay.edu\/staff\/staff_profiles\/asoules.htm\">Aline Soules<\/a> on &#8220;Definition, Selection, Users&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Starting off with some questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is an e-book?\n<li>Who selects e-books?\n<li>What do our users want from e-books?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is an e-book?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aline suggestion a definition<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Content presented in e-format in one complete unit\n<li>A print monograph issued in e-formation\n<li>A &#8220;material type&#8221; GMD [electronic resource]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, Aline believes we need to &#8216;think differently&#8217;, and consider things such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Digitized materials\n<ul>\n<li>e.g. Google Book Project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.futureofthebook.org\">Institute for the Future of the Book<\/a> &#8211; looing at &#8220;networked&#8221; books through use of blogs, e.g. GAM3R 7H3ORY\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/college.usc.edu\/labyrinth\">Labyrinth Project (UCLA)<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Mysteries and Desire: Serach the Worlds of John Rechy&#8221; &#8211; available as a CD-ROM from Amazon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Moveable texts\n<ul>\n<li>Flash poetry &#8211; something that can&#8217;t be represented in &#8216;static&#8217; print, as it relies on movement of words around the screen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Integration of text, images, film clips, etc.\n<ul>\n<li>Test with images vs images with text (digital storytelling) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inms.umn.edu\/elements\">www.inms.umn.edu\/elements<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coe.uh.edu\/digital-storytelling\">www.coe.uh.edu\/digital-storytelling<\/a>\n<li>E-book vs. database e.g. Alexander Press<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Combination creations\n<ul>\n<li>David Goldberg&#8217;s forthcoming book &#8211; he couldn&#8217;t afford the rights to the images he wanted to include, so instead he is providing URLs to the images\/content that he is referencing &#8211; so a print book at relies on the web to be meaningful<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Web sites\n<ul>\n<li>LC&#8217;s American Memory Project\n<li>Whitman Archive\n<li>Although we may consider these websites, Aline says that they are essentially collections of monographs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So &#8211; Aline says, &#8220;What is an e-book?&#8221;, and suggests that there are multiple definitions. When she asked a series of people what they thought an e-book she found that they came up with different ideas focussing on different aspects, but many agreed that what we had now was simply a transition to something not yet invented.<\/p>\n<p>Aline is saying that she feels we are moving from a model of &#8216;peer-review&#8217; before publication, to a more evolutionary situation, where texts are amended as &#8216;feedback&#8217; or &#8216;contribution&#8217; is made.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who selects e-books?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>E-Books may be bought:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In packages\n<ul>\n<li>by vendor, or by publisher\n<li>by consortium<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Individual titles\n<ul>\n<li>Consortium\n<li>Individual selectors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Digitized books\n<ul>\n<li>Vendor\/Selection committess\n<li>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aline is saying that she feels that often selection is based on &#8216;practicialities&#8217; &#8211; i.e. &#8216;what is attainable&#8217; rather than necessarily &#8216;what is wanted&#8217; &#8211; because of the models of acquistions. She feels this is a problem &#8211; I agree&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do users want from e-books?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What do student users want?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebrary.com\/corp\/newspdf\/ebrary_student_survey.pdf\">2008 Global Student E-book Survey by ebrary<\/a>&nbsp; (looks like you have to fill in a form to get the survey &#8211; what a shame they don&#8217;t just let you download it!)\n<li>Aline runs through the responses to question 13<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do faculty users and librarians want? There was an ebrary survey in 2007 which covers some of these points.<\/p>\n<p>Aline now relating what <em>her<\/em> students want:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Remote access\n<li>Anytime, anywhere access\n<li>Ability to download, print\n<li>Ability to identify easily the exact text that fits their assignement\n<li>Ability to cut and past as much text as they want\n<li>Ability to email to themselves a citation in their format of choic or at least APA and MEA, just as they do in databases\n<li>Ability to borrow a title that&#8217;s not owned by their particular library, either through their consortium or interlibrary loan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aline concerned that we are &#8216;giving up&#8217; interlibrary loan, and moving to a model where you absolutely need institutional affiliation to get access.<\/p>\n<p>What does the library want?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cost value\n<li>Abiltiy to integrat e-books technically; handshaing among e-books and the catalog, federate seatch tool, web site etc.\n<li>Something that will download to students&#8217; computers without undue difficulty\n<li>Move away from priprietayr platforms\n<li>Easy authentication\n<li>Archiving\n<li>&#8230;\n<li>What the students want<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aline making the point that we have a load of priorities which aren&#8217;t the same as the students (which I can see, but I think that some of the things we want are implicit in what the students want)<\/p>\n<p>Now Aline coming onto Role of Acquisitiosn with E-books:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keeping up with and understanding the evolution that&#8217;s underway\n<ul>\n<li>Do we ever give up formats?\n<li>Understanding that the pigeon-holes we&#8217;ve used for years aren&#8217;t going to absorb all the new inventions that are coming\n<li>Understanding what we&#8217;re acquiring\n<ul>\n<li>Somthing fixed in time or evolving\n<li>A book or a byte?\n<li>A purchase, a rental or simple, an acquistion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Making contracts work with the user in mind\n<ul>\n<li>More of them\n<li>More complex<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aline making some excellent point, questioning whether we will continue to see a distinction between monograph acquisitions and subscriptions &#8211; she sees a move (which I agree with) towards subscriptions models across the board. She also makes a point that we call it &#8216;acquisitions&#8217; not &#8216;purchase&#8217; &#8211; not everything we acquire may be paid for.<\/p>\n<p>A quick but good run through the issues.<\/p>\n<p>Some notes from Aline available at <a href=\"http:\/\/libresos.pbwiki.com\/ebkwkflows\">http:\/\/libresos.pbwiki.com\/ebkwkflows<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:ac4f3ea4-4305-457a-9e2e-876da4f7896e\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/ala2008\" rel=\"tag\">ala2008<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first ALA session proper is an ACLTS session on e-books. 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