The New Normal?Challenges of Leveraging the eBook Opportunity in K-12 Libraries

Buffy J. Hamilton | The Unquiet Librarian

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access to eContent

eBook as a fundamentally

different literacy/reading

experience

rapidly shifting eReader and eBook landscape

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funding challenges

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divisions

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restrictive purchasing policies3

the “blob” of inertia

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issues and challenges of patron privacy

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fear

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quantifiable data 6

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lack of a device agnostic and standard eBook DRM that meets the needs of all learners and libraries/school communities 7

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publishing market slow to respond to the eBook/eTextbook needs of schools and libraries

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tension of competing interests/concernsbetween librarians and patrons 9

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how to get in the game and be a player 10

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