Archives for the Month of November 2010 on Bibliographic/Metadata Services
Notes -- Northeast Ohio Tech Services Librarians
NOTSL
eBooks
Sue Polanka, Wright State UL
http://www.libraries.wright.edu/noshelfrequired/
Acquiring ebooks
Access and discovery
Ebook readers
Digital textbooks
80 percent on ebooks and journals by 2020
83 percent offering ebooks at public libraries
Publishers:
• get content direct
• more stable title list
• multiple license agreements
• multiple platforms, one publisher each
ALPSP Survey of Academic Book Publishers, John and Laura Cox
Consortial publishing huge
e.g. purchasing via consumer-driven model
university press consortia prospects
consortial purchasing:
-- "cafeteria plan"
Demand records – you get the records. They sit dormant until one clicks on it. Then, decision on matters such as: number of hits to equate purchase
--47 percent using patron-driven purchasing
Short-term Loan:
• Cost-saving strategy
• More content
• Nothing owned
• Accountability
Grand Valley State Univ. EBL charges 5 percent of short-term loan
Barriers:
• Restrictive DRM
• Licensing.
• Formats
• Loading/lending. Importance of consortium here
• MARC records
• Metadata
• Archiving
• Accessibility
Archiving/perpetual access:
• Who has responsibility? Aggregator?
• Portico ebook archiving. Starting Jan 2011, they'll offer an ebook archiving program.
• Cost for libraries
• Rights reverting to authors
• Trigger events for aggregators not the same as trigger events for publishers. Aggregators don't own the books. Rights still owned by publisher.
• Not a U.S. only solution; has to be world-wide.
Goal: alliance b/n publishers, aggregators, libraries.
Ask: are you working with Portico? What is the plan for archiving, perpetual access?
Accessibility:
HTML most accessible format
PDF
Epub 2.1. Standard, from IDBF. Not used consistently.
Sony and iPad adopted Epub as standard.
DRM can still be added
EPUB 2.1 – DAISY
DAISY de facto accessible ebook standard
Adobe digital editions: allows you to share titles b/n top 3 readers, e.g. Kobo, Sony Reader, nook
Bluefire reader.
• Lending. It's not legal, but lots of places are doing it.
• Read the license
• Proceed with caution…
• Taxes. You have to get tax-exempt form from vendor. Kindle's tax exempt only applies to certain publishers. Barnes and Noble – you have to pay taxes, and then seek a refund
• Accounts/credit cards. Put it on library credit card (?)
Tips for loaning:
• Preload the device with content. Buy 6 devices, put title on all six
• Catalog the device/titles. Problem with 100s of titles on device.
• Genre specific devices promotes RA
• 1 or 2 week loans, hourly too
• Use free ebooks
• Deregister library account before loan. Some use this in lieu of interlibrary loan.
• Buffy Hamilton, Duke. Google her
SONY reader library program
• 30 libraries participating, except Ohio
• Training on devices
• Educational materials on ebooks
• Devices: staff use, patron demos
eReader Certification
• overdrive: came up with specs for new ereader. Took to manufacturers to build. When built, OverDrive will certify it
• based on COSLA report
• specs have been created
consumer price index
difficult to purchase digital textbooks for libraries
New Readers:
• Kno
• Entourage Edge
Open Educational Resources (OER)
• Equal access
• Community evaluates
• Free
• Builds on the momentum of open source
• But: often not enough core material for curriculum, question of sustainability
OBR and OLINK. Piloting with psych books. 5 publishers, 30 percent of print cost
Predictions:
• Nothing out-of-print
• Cloud based
• Devices will go dead. Consumer Reports, July 1999: "Now Playing: DVD, DIVX"
• Eli Neiberger, "Libraries are Screwed." Holding onto local copies is meaningless.
Ohio Ebook project
Nicole Merriman, State Library of Ohio
• 40 ohio libraries, subsidized by state library of ohio
• Over 14,000 copies of over 9,500 titles
• Over 473,000 checkouts since 2005
• Patrons can check out up to 10 items at a time and have 10 items on hold
• Ebooks formats: epub, pdf, and mobipocket
• Vendor is OverDrive, Inc. based near Cleveland. http://www.overdrive.com/
• One copy, one user collection
OCLC’s Duplicate Detection and Resolution (DDR) software.”
http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/
Jeffrey Trimble
Managing electronic record catalog (MERC)
How to catalog 14,000 records?
• AIX servers
• Can write 370 Assembler, C+, java
• Techpro not free
Springer e-books
Rav url (resolved url). Persistent
Format output: text, excel
spreadsheet for pre-searching, post-searching processing, data manipulation
bib control #.
2 instits find OCLC records
776b $w for original OCLC # (001)
010 $a --> 010 $z
050 00 --> 090
506, 533, 710 tags added to MARC record
006 and 007 added for proper cataloging
Pivot tables in excel for numeric data
Elvl converted to i/l
LTI does authority control
Vendor neutral cataloging
• Sweeping changes in editing. Not insurmountable, but lotsof rethinkingofprocesses need to beput in place
• Unique challenges in the financial model used.
Vendor standards.
Stats on search. Subject is first at YSU, 2nd is keyword
YSU applying to do gutenberg cataloging
Oai-pmh for oclc #: hathitrust
October 2010 Statistics
Here are our bibliographic statistics for October 2010:
October 2010 Bib. Stats. (MS Excel file)