PRINT ON DEMAND AND PUBLISHING SERVICES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Ian Godfrey Joyce Ogburn J....

PRINT ON DEMAND AND PUBLISHING SERVICES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

Ian GodfreyJoyce OgburnJ. Willard Marriott LibraryUniversity of Utah

Library organization• University Press• Tanner Trust Publications• Book Arts Program and Red Butte Press• Business Ventures and Partnerships

• Publishing Services

• Digital Technologies – newspapers, western history and natural resources, Kirtas scanner

Library goals and local opportunities• Experimentation• Aggressive digitization and digital acquisitions• Increase options for access in a variety of forms• More options for purchase versus borrowing• Archiving of theses and dissertations• Expanded publishing and partnership opportunities• Print on demand of e-books and consumer produced

materials• Thriving book arts community• Family history and genealogy of great importance

Increasing availability• Digitize public domain titles

• Available locally• Add to ODB database and available to anyone with access to EBM

• Offer selected University Press backlist titles• More than 100 Anthropological Papers POD and OA on campus

• Scan on demand service for rare/unique materials

Espresso Book Machine

On Demand Books• Strategic alliance with LSI• Access to more than 1 million titles from 8,000 publishers• Access to more than 2 million public domain Google

books • Access to more than 1 million public domain titles Open

Content Alliance

On Demand Books EspressNet• Collection Development• Interlibrary Loan• Patron Print on Demand• Sales from within the University• Sales from outside the University via Google Switchboard

Self Publishing• Professional & Personal• Cover and text block submitted as separate PDFs• 40 to 800 pages• 4.5” x 5.5” to 8.25” x 10.5”

Self Publishing Demands & Uses• Professional

• Conference Proceedings• Program booklets and keepsakes

• Personal• Journals• Scrapbooks• Novels• Student Projects

• University Press• Distribution for other presses and programs

• ETDs

Results• EspressNet 5-10 per month• Self Publishing 75-150 per month• Reaching Internal, Campus, Local & International users• Collaboration with the Library Store• Revenue

Lessons Learned• EspressNet metadata is minimal and hard to normalize• Users would like more front list content in EspressNet • Google formatting can produce miss cut book• EBM is providing content to support course work that was

otherwise unavailable in print• Perfect bound projects are offering new solutions for

student projects as well as departmental publications• The EBM is reaching users outside of our campus and

connecting them with other library resources