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Today I want to talk about one of the greatest services academic libraries offer to scholars, one that is absolutely essential for any sort of advanced scholarship, and one that is facing the biggest obstacle of its 140-or-so-year-old existence. I’m talking about interlibrary loan (ILL) and the threat it faces from ebooks.
By Carl Straumsheim, for Inside Higher Ed
Many publishing houses don't allow their products to be lent out by digital libraries for fear of piracy. Articles and books by researchers are also affected. Readers are the ones who have to pay the price.
Library directors at 66 liberal arts colleges call on publishers to ease ebook licensing restrictions.
A backstage battle between publishers and authors over royalties may be limiting which e-books you can buy
Via an entertaining compare and contrast, the presenters explore disconnects between e-books and streaming video available via library resources compared to “r…
There's been a lot of really bad "research" purporting to demonstrate that screen reading is automatically inferior to paper reading. This post demolishes it.
Also contains interesting numbers about use, at least for tech-reference books (Safari, Books 24x7). I assume the difference is really point-of-need -- I'm not going to go to the dang library if my computer program needs fixing RIGHT THEN.
Academic libraries have a big hairy problem: Over the past decade or so, their budgets have shifted from buying materials to leasing them. Journals are the main budget killers, with some subscriptions—so vital to the scholarly life—costing $30,000 annually per title. Even the wealthiest university libraries can’t buy everything. In truth, they buy less and … Continue reading Sharing Ebooks on the Razor’s Edge →
The Connecticut library community has engaged its legislators in the ebook-availability debate. The “Report to the General Assembly’s General Law Committee pursuant to Special Act 13-10, “An Act Concerning a Study Regarding the Availability of Electronic Books to Users of Public Libraries” is the result. The report has three parts: “Whether and How Electronic Books … Continue reading Who Do You Trust? →
Revisiting
At ALA Midwinter 2014, librarians were urged not to be satisfied by recent e-book developments, and to look more deeply at their digital future.
Barnes & Noble CEO attributes drop to lower prices, no new products last year.
Several new e-book subscription services are analyzing the data of readers and providing it free.