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| A Presentation about the situation (at November 2013) regarding ebooks and e-lending in UK public libraries. | A Presentation about the situation (at November 2013) regarding ebooks and e-lending in UK public libraries. | ||
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| - | ==== Survey of access to e-books ==== | ||
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| - | [[https://betterconnected.socitm.net/services/libraries/sign-up-for-e-resources/2016-2017|Sign up for e-resources - 2016-2017 Assessment]].[England only] Socitm better connected December 2016 | ||
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| - | From the webiste: | ||
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| - | "Why important | ||
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| - | Access to library services is a highly popular part of council websites that accounts for around 8% of visits according to Socitm data. The provision of e-books and other digitally accessible resources will be opening council library facilities to new audiences, including those unable, or disinclined, to visit the library in person. The facility to access e-magazines free of charge, including downloading latest issues to a smart phone, shows library services to be taking advantage of new services made possible by the latest technologies. Making these services easy to use will be critical if the opportunity to gain a whole new segment of library users is to be realised. | ||
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| - | Overview | ||
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| - | 45% of sites achieved three or four stars for this task, compared with the 74% of county council library sites that achieved this level with the more straightforward Renew library book task in in 2015-16. Clearly, there are challenges in presenting this still relatively new area of activity, a lot of them associated with reliance on content provided by third party providers. When we tested Find out how to borrow e-books in 2015, on a mobile device, 52% of county councils passed the test (equivalent to 3 or 4 stars), but with a different and perhaps less challenging question set. Staffordshire and East Sussex were the only counties to carry forward their four star performance in 2015-16, to this year’s library task." | ||
| ==== The Ebook lending pilots ==== | ==== The Ebook lending pilots ==== | ||
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| 'The issue of e-book lending by libraries is gradually building a head of steam as ownership of reading devices spreads. Put simply, libraries are risking a new form of irrelevance if they fail to offer an e-lending option to today’s digitally-savvy readers—and policy makers are starting to take note. A considerable number of library authorities are already offering e-book lending, but coverage remains patchy and libraries are frustrated by their inability to offer a comprehensive service, both geographically and in terms of the titles they can offer'. | 'The issue of e-book lending by libraries is gradually building a head of steam as ownership of reading devices spreads. Put simply, libraries are risking a new form of irrelevance if they fail to offer an e-lending option to today’s digitally-savvy readers—and policy makers are starting to take note. A considerable number of library authorities are already offering e-book lending, but coverage remains patchy and libraries are frustrated by their inability to offer a comprehensive service, both geographically and in terms of the titles they can offer'. | ||
| - | **'[[http://www.thebookseller.com/news/jarvis-calls-e-lending-task-force.html|Jarvis calls for e-lending task force]]**' Lisa Campbell. The Bookseller 5th July 2012 [Extract] //'Labour shadow culture minister Dan Jarvis has called for the government to create a cross-industry task force to explore the issue of e-book lending in libraries. Jarvis said the taskforce should be chaired by an independent expert, to oversee discussions which he says are crucial to a 21st-century libraries model. "I am calling for the Government to convene an effective and credible taskforce to explore e-book lending—which should consist of librarians, authors and publishers and be chaired by an independent expert. If the Government wants libraries to move into the 21st century, and wants to protect the value of books, Ed Vaizey needs to act on this now.”// | + | **'[[http://www.thebookseller.com/news/jarvis-calls-e-lending-task-force.html|Jarvis calls for e-lending task force]]**' Lisa Campbell. The Bookseller 5th July 2012 [Extract] //'Labour shadow culture minister Dan Jarvis has called for the government to create a cross-industry task force to explore the issue of e-book lending in libraries. Jarvis said the taskforce should be chaired by an independent expert, to oversee discussions which he says are crucial to a 21st-century libraries model. "I am calling for the Government to convene an effective and credible taskforce to explore e-book lending—which should consist of librarians, authors and publishers and be chaired by an independent expert. If the Government wants libraries to move into the 21st century, and wants to protect the value of books, Ed Vaizey needs to act on this now.”////Separately, the chairman of the All-party Parliamentary Committee on Libraries Justin Tomlinson has set out his thoughts for how e-lending in libraries should work, suggesting borrowers should be charged to borrow e-books. In an email to library campaigners, Tomlinson has suggested “in principle” that e-books should be borrowed through a physical visit to a library, “thus protecting footfall” and “a small charge” should be levied “with the money shared between the publishers and the physical community library".// |
| - | //Separately, the chairman of the All-party Parliamentary Committee on Libraries Justin Tomlinson has set out his thoughts for how e-lending in libraries should work, suggesting borrowers should be charged to borrow e-books. In an email to library campaigners, Tomlinson has suggested “in principle” that e-books should be borrowed through a physical visit to a library, “thus protecting footfall” and “a small charge” should be levied “with the money shared between the publishers and the physical community library".// | + | |
| //Tomlinson also suggested publishers should be encouraged to release some stock for free access and that there should be one uniform e-book service, maintaining that traditional books should remain free. However the proposal was criticised by CILIP president Phil Bradley as “an amazingly short-sighted view of the future of the library and the provision of books"// | //Tomlinson also suggested publishers should be encouraged to release some stock for free access and that there should be one uniform e-book service, maintaining that traditional books should remain free. However the proposal was criticised by CILIP president Phil Bradley as “an amazingly short-sighted view of the future of the library and the provision of books"// | ||
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| - | **'[[http://www.thebookseller.com/news/132038-pa-sets-out-restrictions-on-library-e-book-lending.html|PA sets out restrictions on library e-book lending]]**'. By Benedicte Page. The Bookseller website. 21st October 2010. Extract: //The Publishers Association has set out an agreed position on e-book lending in libraries that will see library users blocked from downloading e-books outside of the library premises. Faber c.e.o. Stephen Page announced the new guidelines on 21 Octobe) at the CILIP Public Library Authorities conference in Leeds.// | + | **'[[http://www.thebookseller.com/news/132038-pa-sets-out-restrictions-on-library-e-book-lending.html|PA sets out restrictions on library e-book lending]]**'. By Benedicte Page. The Bookseller website. 21st October 2010. Extract: //The Publishers Association has set out an agreed position on e-book lending in libraries that will see library users blocked from downloading e-books outside of the library premises. Faber c.e.o. Stephen Page announced the new guidelines on 21 Octobe) at the CILIP Public Library Authorities conference in Leeds.////Under the new scheme, library users would have to come onto the library's physical premises to download an e-book at a computer terminal onto a mobile device, rather than downloading the book remotely. The scheme would also see the fee paid by a library to buy a book covering the right to loan one copy to one individual at any given time, and would require "robust and secure geographical-based membership" in place at the library service doing the lending.// |
| - | //Under the new scheme, library users would have to come onto the library's physical premises to download an e-book at a computer terminal onto a mobile device, rather than downloading the book remotely. The scheme would also see the fee paid by a library to buy a book covering the right to loan one copy to one individual at any given time, and would require "robust and secure geographical-based membership" in place at the library service doing the lending.// | + | |
| //Page told the PLA conference that the PA's new position on e-book lending had been forged after some library authorities mismanaged their lending.// | //Page told the PLA conference that the PA's new position on e-book lending had been forged after some library authorities mismanaged their lending.// | ||
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