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How Much Does Obama's Summer Reading List Cost a Library?

Posted By Michael Blackwell Sep 09, 2024 03:31 PM
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Hello, Ebook Aficionados, Laura Crossett and Jennie Rose Halperin posed this interesting question, so we looked into it. Turns out-no surprise to folks on this list--not so very much in print but a lot in digital. Read their post here. I attach a spreadsheet in case you'd like ...

How Much Does Obama's Summer Reading List Cost a Library? Attachments

Posted By Michael Blackwell Sep 09, 2024 03:31 PM
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Does Digital Ownership Matter for Libraries? Let's talk About It

Posted By Michael Blackwell Sep 09, 2024 03:23 PM
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Hi all, Hope you'll join me for a discussion of this question! Does Digital Ownership Matter for Libraries? Let's talk About It September 09, 2024 Collaborating For Access: Does Digital Ownership Matter For Libraries? Wednesday, October 16, 2024, at 1p ET From the DPLA, COSLA, and ReadersFirst: ...

Price Increases from three of the Big 5

Posted By Michael Blackwell Aug 26, 2024 09:07 AM
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Hello library ebook aficionados, Carmi Parker and other members of the ReadersFirst Working Group have noticed that some prices seemed to be going up. They investigated. Carmi has posted about what they found: Price increases from three of the Big Five August 23, 2024 Some of our ...

"Groundbreaking Agreement Provides Libraries with Permanent Ownership Rights"

Posted By Michael Blackwell Aug 13, 2024 11:22 AM
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Hi all, Chalk one up in the Good News category; libraries now have the right to OWN rather than just license content. "The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and Independent Publishers Group (IPG) have announced a groundbreaking agreement that will transform how American libraries provide access ...

Library Future's Take on Hoopla's Content Problem

Posted By Michael Blackwell Aug 13, 2024 10:32 AM
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Hi all, The original post is well worth a read, and I do encourage it! 😊 In "Hoopla's Content Problem: Strange, Skewed Results Still Dominate Catalog," Laura Crossett and Jennie Rose Halperin document some unfortunate search returns in Hoopla's Pay-Per-use model: "in trying to offer the ...

Survey about

Posted By Michael Blackwell Jul 31, 2024 11:33 AM
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Hi all, I'm passing along a survey about digital preservation that Alan Inouye has shared with me. Please take a look and, if interested, respond. Michael Michael Blackwell Director, St Mary's County Library 23630 Hayden Farm Lane Leonardtown, MD 20650 301-475-2151 x5013 ...

Survey about Attachments

Posted By Michael Blackwell Jul 31, 2024 11:33 AM
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RE: Ebook Friday Agenda

Posted By Michael Blackwell Jun 29, 2024 07:38 PM
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Claire Kelley at independent publisher Seven Stories Press (she is also a MLIS student at San Jose State University) has created a survey to better understand the needs and preferences of librarian selectors. The responses will be anonymized and shared as aggregate data and in infographics in a presentation ...

Collection Survey--get a free book.

Posted By Michael Blackwell Jun 29, 2024 07:38 PM
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Claire Kelley at independent publisher Seven Stories Press (she is also a MLIS student at San Jose State University) has created a survey to better understand the needs and preferences of librarian selectors. The responses will be anonymized and shared as aggregate data and in infographics in a presentation ...

Ebook Friday Agenda

Posted By Michael Blackwell Jun 05, 2024 10:19 AM
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Hi all, Here's the agenda for Ebook Friday. Hope to see you. I'll send a Zoom link as well. Michael ALA Ebook Friday Schedule June 28, 10 am - 2 pm, with reception to follow 10:00 to 10:05 Welcome (Michael Blackwell, Micah May) 10:05 - 10:20: ReadersFirst Publisher ...

Ebook Friday Update

Posted By Michael Blackwell Apr 17, 2024 01:40 PM
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Hi all, At ALA Annual in San Diego, the CORE Ebooks Interest Group will feature the 6th Annual "Ebook Friday." Leaders in the library digital content ecosystem will present projects, discuss trends, and consider possible advocacy. Presenters will include the following, and more: A ReadersFirst ...

NISO standards for CDL

Posted By Michael Blackwell Mar 22, 2024 10:50 AM
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Hi all, Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) is increasingly being used in libraries, so it's high time we started developing standards for how it can be best be used. NISO conveyed a committee to develop these standards. You can review and even comment on their work, as noted in this press release: ...

Connecticut op-ed

Posted By Michael Blackwell Mar 06, 2024 11:20 AM
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Hi all, Carmi Parker has forwarded this op-ed from the sponsors of the Connecticut Fair Ebooks bill. It makes for powerful reading. https://www.ctinsider.com/opinion/article/opinion-e-books-interfere-libraries-core-18695477.php These legislators understand. Go, Connecticut! ...

An ebook advocacy site

Posted By Michael Blackwell Feb 15, 2024 01:23 PM
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Hi all, Library Futures has launched the ebooksforus site, creating a fun way to explore a problem that is very far from fun: the Big 5 Publishers' (and many other publishers of academic texts) unfair licensing terms for libraries, terms which are making the sharing of digital content unsustainable ...

Jobs of interest to people on this list

Posted By Michael Blackwell Jan 11, 2024 02:42 PM
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Hi all, I've never thought of using this site to advertise jobs, but these two would be of interest to people who are concerned about library digital content. I can vouch for thee being great colleagues to work with. Michael Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Collection Services ...

Webinar of Interest

Posted By Michael Blackwell Jan 11, 2024 02:33 PM
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Hi all, This webinar should be interesting. I hope you will consider attending. It's free! 😊 Collaborating for Access: Libraries and Independent Authors Thursday, February 1, 2024, at 3p ET At our seventh in the Collaborating for Access series of webinars presented by ...

Ebook Friday is on and Toward a digital library ownership model

Posted By Michael Blackwell Dec 14, 2023 01:27 PM
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Hi everyone, It looks as if Ebook Friday is on for ALA Annual 2024 in beautiful San Diego. If you are attending, hope to see you there! Please see the blog post below from Micah May of the Digital Public Library of America. I've shared a few hardly amazing thoughts on it elsewhere ...

Transcript from DPLA/COSLA/ReadersFirst

Posted By Michael Blackwell Oct 12, 2023 03:16 PM
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Hi all, Here's a link to the recording of the most recent DPLA/COSLA/ReadersFirst "Collaborating for Access": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPqbEKTSRJI What do librarians REALLY want from publishers, and how can smaller and independent publishers create a better ecosystem? In our sixth Collaborating ...

RE: Goodbye and thanks for all the fish!

Posted By Michael Blackwell Sep 27, 2023 08:35 AM
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Hi Will, I'm very glad for you and yet sad for us. Your energy and wisdom will be much missed. Thanks for all you have done advancing access to and use of library digital content! All best wishes for a happy and fulfilling retirement. Michael

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