2013 Charleston Conference

When it comes to foreign language materials, the path from print to electronic resources is as complex from the perspective of vendors as it is for the libraries they serve. Today, despite the digital revolution’s potential to bridge the divides of geography and culture, scholarly publishers overseas remain wary.

Three leading suppliers of vernacular language content — Casalini Libri, Harrassowitz, and East View — will address the unique challenges and specific issues facing academic libraries in North America that acquire, process and deliver non-English language content to patrons. Learn how eBook design from concept to delivery took a different approach for each of these three for scholarly content published in German, Italian, Russian and Chinese.