2013 Charleston Conference

For all libraries, the landscape of ebook access models, content choices and platforms are changing with exponential speed. Library budgets continue to decrease, driving new modes of collaboration. Learn how the NY 3Rs Association Inc. is addressing the needs of its academic and public library members through a multi-phased ebook initiative that leverages differences among members to expand content scope and enhance resource sharing. Using EBL as a vendor, the initiative is a user-based demand driven project involving public library systems and all types of academic libraries – perhaps one of the few multi-type DDA ebook pilots currently in place.

This session will share results from phase one (August 20122 to May 2013) of the pilot initiative which operated under a multiplier model as well as provide preliminary information on phase 2 which is operating under a limited-use model. Issues such as publisher participation, multi-type collaboration, cost-share models, and shattering of some long-held assumptions will be discussed.