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OLA Superconference 2004: Whatever happened to ebooks?
Whatever happened to ebooks?
OLASession 516
9:00-10:15 a.m.
OLA Superconference 2004: Whatever happened to ebooks?
Whatever happened to ebooks?
Presenters:Barbara Franchetto, Deputy Director
Southern Ontario Library Service Janet Woodbridge, Manager of
Special Populations Services Joanne Lombardo, Collections
Coordinator, Electronic Materials, Toronto, Public Library
OLA Superconference 2004: Whatever happened to ebooks?
Electronic Resources in Ontario
Creation of COOL in 1998Multi-sector consortiumNegotiate preferred pricingVendor agreementsNo central funding
OLA Superconference 2004: Whatever happened to ebooks?
Context: Long, long ago, in the year 2000...
Ebooks for the library marketHandheld devices
Experimentation in library environment
Windsor PL, Toronto PL & Richmond Hill PL (early adopters)
Web based delivery COOL
OLA Superconference 2004: Whatever happened to ebooks?
Bleeding edge!
Market: Ebook market new, innovative, exciting and
riding the dotcom boom Analysts announced the end of bookstores and
libraries No more bricks and mortar!
Issues: Handheld vs. web based Standards vs. proprietary Various delivery and pricing models
OLA Superconference 2004: Whatever happened to ebooks?
Let’s share!
Volume purchases result in deeper discounts
Libraries can provide more content for less money
Minimize risk Users in multiple sectors Consortium advantage in
negotiating with vendor
OLA Superconference 2004: Whatever happened to ebooks?
...and the show must go on!
COOL created a provincial ebook collection Intra-consortial agreement:
OCUL contributed collection Bibliocentre and SOLS contributed funds
to expand existing collection Purchase titles in perpetuity Review value of shared collection Expanding collection
OLA Superconference 2004: Whatever happened to ebooks?
Show me the money!
Money in the middle (late 2001) Purchase of ebook titles netLibrary as the ebook vendor Add-on to existing OCUL collection OUTCOME:
More bang for our collective buck! No minimum amount required per
library
OLA Superconference 2004: Whatever happened to ebooks?
Provincial Shared Ebook Collection
OCUL collection of 2000 titles Bibliocentre collection 400 titles SOLS collection 680 Cliffs Notes almost 400 titles (4
copies) Total number of titles: 3600+
OLA Superconference 2004: Whatever happened to ebooks?
Public library participation
Number of libraries– 2002: 25 – 2003: 60
Expenditures– $30,000– $75,000
OLA Superconference 2004: Whatever happened to ebooks?
Public Library Fee Schedule
Population served Fee
<15,000 $ 10015,001-50,000 $ 50050,001-100,000 $2,500>100,001 $5,000County $1,000First Nations PL $ 100
OLA Superconference 2004: Whatever happened to ebooks?
Public library participation
Under 15,000 (27) 15,001-50,000 (15) 50,001-100,000 (7) Over 100,001 (11) Counties (4)
OLA Superconference 2004: Whatever happened to ebooks?
Collection Development
Public LibrariesOriginally, each library submitted
titles In 2003, created Collection
Development CommitteeOver 660 titles added in
December 2003More to come!
OLA Superconference 2004: Whatever happened to ebooks?
What a library wants: Top 5
Literature (U=3; C=5) Business, Economics, Management
(U=1; C=1) Computers (U=4; C=3) Medicine (U=5; C=2) Social Sciences (U=2; C=4)
OLA Superconference 2004: Whatever happened to ebooks?
We’ve come a long way baby!
Collection is growing (almost 4000 titles)
Participation is growing (over 60 public libraries)
Use is growing (over 122,000 accesses in public libraries)
OLA Superconference 2004: Whatever happened to ebooks?
Looking back...
Expectations too high (dotcom frenzy)
Delivery mode (handheld, PDAs, web)
Business model (pricing) Content (fiction vs. non fiction)
OLA Superconference 2004: Whatever happened to ebooks?
Ebooks: valuable to libraries because...
Shared collection Reduced costs Collection development skills Space/shelving shortages Reference collection Remote access Electronic resources
OLA Superconference 2004: Whatever happened to ebooks?
Barbara [email protected]
Janet [email protected]
Joanne [email protected]
