BUILDING EBOOK COLLECTIONS: CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIESEbook Ecosystem 2016: State of the Art, Five Years On

New Orleans, June 25, 2011

Michael Levine-Clark

Collections Librarian

University of Denver

michael.levine-clark@du.edu

The Ideal World: 2016

• A mostly demand-driven collection• eBooks primarily• Print-On-Demand secondarily• A much larger collection – bounded only by budget• Some packages based on solid use data• All with consortial options

• eBooks widely available• eBooks easy to use

• Device agnostic• Minimal DRM

HOW DO WE GET THERE?What must we improve?

Content

• Flexibility and Predictability• All titles• All aggregators• All pricing models• Multiple formats simultaneously

• Electronic• Print• Local print-on-demand

Digital Rights Management

• Less is better, but publishers need some control

• No limitations within licensed user group• On device• On use

• Limitations on sharing beyond group

Pricing

• Flexibility!• Title-by-title or package• Purchase or subscription

• Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA)• Short-term lease

• ILL• Component of DDA

Pricing

• Ability to acquire E/P (or POD) bundle, even retroactively

• Consortial options• Must recognize traditional spending patterns• Should work across aggregators• Should work with DDA

• Sliding discount?

Integration with Print Workflow

• Approval vendor(s)• Deduplication• Bundling• Billing

THANK YOU

Michael Levine-Clark

Collections Librarian

University of Denver

michael.levine-clark@du.edu