Laying the Groundwork for a Successful E-Book Collection

They may be filled with words, just like physical books, but e-books tell their own story when it comes to building a library collection. This on-demand webinar covers the particularities of licensing e-materials, and how this represents a change from buying and owning physical books to “leasing” e-book access for use by patrons. The program will details available options for collecting e-books–including for-pay, free, and the “library as publisher” experiment from Douglas County Libraries in Colorado. Also includes an e-book/e-zine vendor panel. This archived webinar was originally presented November 1, 2011, as the second of four webinars in “Public Librarian’s Guide to E-Books: A PLA Webinar Series.” Recording sold as an on-demand webinar until June 4, 2012. “Public Librarian’s Guide to E-Books: A PLA Webinar Series” offers a practical approach to integrating e-books, e-readers, and related e-materials into public library collections. The tone is down-to-earth and sensible—addressing the basics, such as why e-books and e-readers are important to libraries and providing a cookbook approach to adding e-books to collections of all sizes. Panelists: Jamie LaRue, director, Douglas County (Colo.) Libraries; Aimee Fifarek, library technologies & content manager, Scottsdale (Ariz.) Public Library; Ben Ganley, e-book sales operations manager, EBSCO; David Burleigh, director of marketing, Overdrive; and Tom Mercer, project development manager, Cloud Library, 3M. Moderated by Carson Block, consultant.