Downloadable eMedia in Public Libraries

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Downloadable eMedia in Public Libraries

• Joan Hansen, Collection Development
• Janet Ryan, Web Information Services
• Denver Public Library

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What is eMedia?

• eBooks
• Audio eBooks
• eFlicks (Video)

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How to find eMedia

• ebooks.denverlibrary.org
• downloadmedia.denverlibrary.org
• Two URLs for the same site.
• Site lives on Overdrives servers but mirrors
  DPLs site design

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Why Offer eMedia?

• Target market for denverlibrary.org
• No loss, theft or damage possible
• No processing, already cataloged
• Available for checkout upon purchase
• No space limitations
• Quick usage statistics

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Why Offer eMedia?

• Available anytime, anywhere
• Never overdue, no fines
• Special features
• Accessibility for mobility/visual impaired
• Anonymity
• Easy and fun!

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Usage

• 55 of downloadable media collection checked out
  in September
• September Downloadable Snapshot
• Circulation 4,047 Checkouts
• 1,342 eBooks, 1,847 Audio eBooks, 277 video
• Holds 953 holds
• 146 eBooks, 790 Audio eBooks, 17 video
• Copies Owned 7,278 total

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Most Popular eBooks

• On the Way to the Wedding
• Again the Magic
• Beach Road
• Blink
• Devil in Winter
• Freakonomics
• Lady Sophias Lover
• An Offer from a Gentleman
• She Comes First
• The Wyoming Kid 

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Most Popular Audio eBooks

• 25 Things to Say to the Interviewer
• Judge Jury
• 1984
• Fahrenheit 451
• Mans Search for Meaning
• Absolute Certainty
• The Fountainhead
• Freakonomics
• Making of Modern Economics
• Pride and Prejudice

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Most Popular eFlicks

• Super Size Me
• Dolphins (IMAX)
• Amazon (Imax)
• Volcanoes of the Deep Sea (IMAX)
• Assault on Precinct 13
• The Bicycle Thief
• Birth of a Nation
• Game 6
• Journey Into Amazing Caves (IMAX)
• Meditation for Beginners.

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Survey Results

• In July of 2006, DPL conducted a survey of
  Downloadable media users. We received 154 unique
  responses. Here is what we learned
• 78 were 33 or older (with 44 44 and older).
• 53 were female. 47 were male.
• 52 use items on a PC or laptop. 20 use them on
  an MP3 player. 15 burn to CD and 12 use them on
  a PDA or Smartphone.

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Survey Comments

• audio eBooks Id love to see more of them!
• the more audio eBooks the better
• Please add more Audio eBooks
• I am totally blind and after renewing my card
  this is truly a dream come true for me, thank
  you.
• I would really like to be able to return audio
  eBooks early
• Whether the book can be burned to CD is
  critical
• Make the audio and video available for
  iPod!!!!!
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Uploading Local Content

• Ability for subscribing libraries to upload
  original content
• National Association of Realtors
• Cleveland Public Library
• Denver Public Library City of Denver

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New Reader Software

• Overdrive Media Console 2.1 launched October 2006
  
• Adobe Digital Editions coming early 2007

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Mobile Sites

• Trend to provide Mobile sites that will render
  well on cellphones and PDAs
• Overdrive plans launch of NYPL mobile site soon,
  others will follow

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New Ways to Download

• Download Stations in the Library
• Potential for Kiosks in other public places, such
  as malls, grocery stores, airports

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New Media Types?

• Started with eBooks, expanded to
• Audio eBooks, Music and Video
• Where to go from here?
• Games
• Ringtones
• Multimedia such as interactive textbooks
  (possible with new Adobe Digital Editions)

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Discussion

• Your experiences?
• Thoughts about future possibilities?

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Thank you!

• Joan Hansen Collection Development
• jhansen_at_denver.lib.co.us
• Janet Ryan Web Information Services
• jryan_at_denver.lib.co.us