Continuing the Conversation: Integrating eBooks and eReaders into Your Library

By Daniel A. Freeman |

We just wrapped up Sue Polanka’s popular workshop Integrating eBooks and eReaders into Your Library. Sue led a fantastic event with some great discussion!

The readings, resources and slides for the event are listed below. Have further questions or comments? Whether you participated in the event or not, feel free to chime in via the comments area below!

The Readings for Today’s Workshop:

Session 1: Purchasing eBooks for Libraries

Acquiring eBooks by Lisa Sibert and Carolyn Morris from No Shelf Required: E‐Books in Libraries by Sue Polanka, pages 95‐124 http://www.alaeditions.org/%20No_Shelf_Chapter_6
Collection Development for E-Books (E-Book Task Force Tip Sheets) by Anne Behler. http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oitp/ebook_collection_dev.pdf
What libraries can do when they buy an ebook
http://blog.librarylaw.com/librarylaw/2011/06/what-libraries-can-do-when-they-buy-an-ebook.html
Ebook Summit: Our Ebook Challenge
http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/887220-264/ebook_summit_our_ebook_challenge.html.csp
COSLA: eBook Feasibility Study for Public Libraries http://www.cosla.org/documents/COSLA2270_Report_Final1.pdf
From Library Technology Reports Volume 47, Number 8 / November/December 2011, The No Shelf Required Guide to E-Book Purchasing: http://alatechsource.metapress.com/content/t4l77p378624/
- Chapter 1: Purchasing E-books in Libraries, by Sue Polanka
- Chapter 4: Open Access E-books, by E.S. Hellman
Acquiring eBooks by Lisa Sibert and Carolyn Morris from No Shelf Required: E‐Books in Libraries by Sue Polanka, pages 95‐124 http://www.alaeditions.org/%20No_Shelf_Chapter_6
Collection Development for E-Books (E-Book Task Force Tip Sheets) by Anne Behler. http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oitp/ebook_collection_dev.pdf
What libraries can do when they buy an ebook
http://blog.librarylaw.com/librarylaw/2011/06/what-libraries-can-do-when-they-buy-an-ebook.html
Ebook Summit: Our Ebook Challenge
http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/887220-264/ebook_summit_our_ebook_challenge.html.csp
COSLA: eBook Feasibility Study for Public Libraries http://www.cosla.org/documents/COSLA2270_Report_Final1.pdf

Session 2: Lending eBook Readers in Libraries

May a Library Lend eBook Readers? Peter Hirtle
http://blog.librarylaw.com/librarylaw/2010/06/may-a-library-lend-e-book-readers.html
E‐Readers and Libraries by Beth Bouwman http://www.slideshare.net/bethbouwman/ereaders‐and‐libraries
The River Forest Public Library Experience with the Kindle by Blaise Dierks from No Shelf Required: E‐Books in Libraries by Sue Polanka , pages 68 ‐69 http://www.alaeditions.org/no-shelf-required-pages-68-69
The Penn State University SONY E‐book Reader Project by Anne Behler, from No Shelf Required: E‐Books in Libraries by Sue Polanka, pages 88 – 90http://www.alaeditions.org/no-shelf-required-pages-88-90

For reference:

Facebook Page – Ebook Readers in Libraries http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14473239090&v=info
Kindles at the Unquiet Library http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/kindles
eReaders Home Page – Duke University Libraries http://library.duke.edu/ereaders/