kindles and ipads and nooks, oh my!
DESCRIPTION
Presentation made at CIT Showcase, 2011TRANSCRIPT
1
Kindles and iPads and Nooks, Oh My!
eBooks in Duke Libraries
Presentation for the CIT Showcase
Nancy J. Gibbs CIT Showcase Presentation 4/29/2011
Provide a way for patrons to interact with new and emerging book and information technologies
Increase access to high-demand titles
We began with 12 Kindles and then added an additional 12 Kindles and 15 Nooks.
Providing many books available to users at a fraction of the cost of a popular print book.
Nancy J. Gibbs CIT Showcase Presentation 4/29/2011 2
Purpose
3
Highest circulation titles in current literature collections
Titles in these collections with more than 3 hold requests
Newly published titles in high demand (e.g. Fall of Giants by Ken Follett)
Patron purchase suggestions
Nancy J. Gibbs CIT Showcase Presentation 4/29/2011
Selection Criteria
4
Selected Duke University Press books are now on the Kindles!
Examples: Higher Ground: ethics and leadership in the
modern university 36 views of Mount Fuji: on finding myself in Japan
Nancy J. Gibbs CIT Showcase Presentation 4/29/2011
New this month
5Nancy J. Gibbs CIT Showcase
Presentation 4/29/2011
Marketing
Nancy J. Gibbs CIT Showcase Presentation 4/29/2011 6
Acccess
Through the online catalog At all Service points With carrying case and all the
accoutrements After signing waiver explaining cost
implications if lost or damaged Circulation period of 2 weeks
Nancy J. Gibbs CIT Showcase Presentation 4/29/2011 7
How we circulate
8
Considering offering Sony e readers Investigating use of iPads for e reading Investigating OverDrive offerings for
academic libraries What do you need and want?
Nancy J. Gibbs CIT Showcase Presentation 4/29/2011
What’s next for ereaders?
Historical materials Current materials Duke Univ Press books, Oxford online,
Cambridge histories Sage reference materials Wiser’s Chinese e books Springer e book collections
Nancy J. Gibbs CIT Showcase Presentation 4/29/2011 9
What e books have we bought
10
Biomedicine and Life Sciences Collection Engineering Collection Math and Statistics Collection Earth and Environmental Sciences
Collection Chemistry and Materials Science Collection Computer Sciences Collection Physics and Astronomy Collection
Nancy J. Gibbs CIT Showcase Presentation 4/29/2011
Springer e book collections
11
E book platforms and publishers supported
by the libraries
E Book Library (ebl)
Cambridge, Oxford ABC-CLIO Sage
Ebrary netLibrary Elsevier Wiley Springer
Nancy J. Gibbs CIT Showcase Presentation 4/29/2011
Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues by William Ferris, published by UNC Press
The Elements by Theodore Gray and Nick Mann, published by Black Dog & Leventual Publishers
Nancy J. Gibbs CIT Showcase Presentation 4/29/2011 12
Enhanced e books
13
Send an email to [email protected]
Nancy J. Gibbs CIT Showcase Presentation 4/29/2011
For more information
14
Sara Seten Berghausen, Librarian for Literature and Theater Studies
Nancy Gibbs, Head of Acquisitions Aisha Harvey, Head of Collection
Development Danette Pachtner, Librarian for Film, Video
and Digital Media
Nancy J. Gibbs CIT Showcase Presentation 4/29/2011
Participants today: