Jennifer Schwelik

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eBooks
Jennifer Schwelik Beachwood Schools jschwelik_at_bw.b
eachwood.k12.oh.us http//www.beachwood.k12.oh.us/
bhslmc/bhsref.htm
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Paper
4000 B.C.
2800 B.C.

• ½ character/second
• 1 character/cubic inch

• 2 characters/second
• 250 characters/cubic inch

3000 miles - 18 days
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Printing Press
1450 A.D.

• 3000 characters/second
• 500 characters/cubic inch

3000 miles - 18 days
Telegraph
1837
3000 miles - 4 minutes
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Digitized Books
Today
In 2000, Stephen Kings book, Riding the Bullet,
was introduced to the public in eBook format
only.

• 20,000 characters/second
• 125 billion characters/cubic inch
• 3000 miles - 1 trillionth of a second

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THE GOALS

• Improving library service
• Maximizing user satisfaction
• Keeping within the constraints of the budget
• Designing an easily identifiable space in
  cyberspace

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Accessible through your catalog
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• Requires Authentication
• IP authentication
• Referring URL

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One Vendor- NetLibrary
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eBook Management

• Circulation
• Statistics
• Purchasing

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URL separate from patrons
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Advantages

• Patron/Student
• Searching text
• Damage-free annotation
• Hyperlinking
• Portability

• Librarian/Teacher
• Circulation
• Preservation
• Reading room easily customizable

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Who else is there?Over 150 eBook only publishers

• Ebrary http//www.ebrary.com
• Allows viewing
• Charges for printing or copying
• Alexandria Digital Literature http//www.alexlit.c
  om
• Out-of-print poems and stories
• Many available for 1.00

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Who else is there?

• University of Virginia http//etext.lib.virginia.
  edu
• Large variety of titles
• Many accessible by general public
• Library of Congress http//www.loc.gov
• Collections of books documenting US History

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Who else is there?

• Rutgers http//www.scc.rutgers.edu/memdb
• Medieval databank
• Digital preservation of brittle books
• Questia http//www.quiesta.com
• Unlimited access to full text of thousands of
  books, journals and periodicals
• Project Gutenberg http//www.gutenberg.net/
• 3,500 public domain texts

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Who else is there?

• Internet Public Library http//www.ipl.org/reading
  /books/
• Collection of texts
• All public domain
• Bartleby http//www.bartelby.com
• 200 free access works
• e-picture books http//ipicturebook.com
• Out-of-print picture books (charge)

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Where are we now?

• Classic Model
• Library buys x copies of eBook
• Book is cataloged and MARC record is entered into
  online catalog
• User finds eBook online and downloads to his
  reading device.
• Book is shrink wrapped with rights mangement
  envelope
• Book is read and returned to the library

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Where are we going?

• Distributed Networking
• Library acquires eBook
• Voucher sets rights for loan
• Directory union catalog of eBooks
• User requests book in any library in the
  consortium
• User downloads book
• Book is shrink wrapped in use voucher
• OR User requests book
• Library purchase book
• Library downloads book onto Users computer

• Print-on-demand
• Lightning Source http//www.lightningsource.com
• Electronic ink and paper
• http//www.eink.com
• All course materials on-line. Students download
  them to laptop

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Remember...

• Binding
• eBooks are electronically bound
• Paperback books are paper bound
• Hardback books are hard bound
• Cost
• eBooks are a purchased until you discard them
• eBooks cost about the same as a hardback book
• Access
• eBooks can be used one at a time -- just like
  hardback books

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Contract Options

• Individual school
• District/Consortium
• Purchase on demand
• Rent - annual fee

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