Comments on: What Sarah Said: Episode 5: eBooks – The Line Must Be Drawn Here!

By: Toward an e-library ecosystem: Public libraries will screw … | The Library Site

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:31:46 +0000

[...] was very common to see 100-200 holds on 10-20 eBook copies of a particular title,” one librarian told Sara Houghton of Librarian in Black fame. [...]

By: Toward an e-library ecosystem: Public libraries will screw themselves if they don’t learn from Amazon’s ‘seamless’ approach « Evil Corner

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:23:41 +0000

[...] very common to see 100-200 holds on 10-20 eBook copies of a particular title,” one librarian told Sara Houghton of Librarian in Black fame. [...]

By: Toward an e-library ecosystem: Public libraries will screw themselves if they don’t learn from Amazon’s ‘seamless’ approach | Ebooks on Crack

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:18:41 +0000

[...] very common to see 100-200 holds on 10-20 eBook copies of a particular title,” one librarian told Sara Houghton of Librarian in Black fame. [...]

By: Toward an e-library ecosystem: Public libraries will screw themselves if they don’t learn from Amazon’s comprehensive ‘seamless’ approach - The Digital Reader

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:07:06 +0000

[...] very common to see 100-200 holds on 10-20 eBook copies of a particular title,” one librarian told Sara Houghton of Librarian in Black fame. [...]

By: the.effing.librarian

the.effing.librarian — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:17:41 +0000

the 1=1 model should be normal. unless we can get all the libraries and all consortia money together to demand better access, we’re going to need to live with the print model for ebooks. but what we could do now is find a way to promote the ebooks that have less demand, no wait list… has someone written something that polls your Overdrive site to display books that have no wait? and can you run a display on your website or on a screen in the library in real time that shows these titles? I don’t know what programming would do this, but I know that even with our small collection of ebooks, we have a bunch that have gotten cold, but we don’t have any real way to push them… unlike real books that you can pile on a table and give everyone a looksy… for now, libraries are stuck with crappy ebooks contracts since we can’t buy everything we want and lend it how we want, so I’m just looking for some ways to make everything a little better because it’s not realistic to say we can devote more and more money to ebooks just because you gave your grandma a Kindle for Christmas…

By: Andromeda

Andromeda — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:46:34 +0000

In the spirit of roadkill avoidance, I’d add “read SOPA/PIPA and protest them to your congresspeople”. SOPA will threaten your organization, vis-a-vis digital content, and probably destroy mine.

On SOPA and libraries: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/how-sopa-affects-students-and-educators, http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2011/12/sopa-could-put-common-library-software.html

Text of SOPA: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3261:
Text of PIPA: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:S.968:

By: Toward an e-library ecosystem: Public libraries will screw themselves if they don’t learn from Amazon’s comprehensive ‘seamless’ approach | LibraryCity

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:13:58 +0000

[...] very common to see 100-200 holds on 10-20 eBook copies of a particular title," one librarian told Sara Houghton of Librarian in Black fame. [...]