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E books in public libraries. vendors in poland and usa
1. E-books in public libraries
Vendors in USA and Poland
E-books seminar
Magdalena Paul
MA student
Library and Information Science Institute
University of Warsaw
2. Agenda
● E-books in USA and Poland
– statistical comparison
● E-books in public libraries in USA
● American vendors
●
Overdrive
● NetLibrary and EBSCO
●
Ingram
●
Acquiring possibilities in Poland
7. E-books in public libraries in USA
●More than 75% public
libraries lend e-books
●
12% borrows e-books
from the library
●
They read 6 books
more
8. I don't know
I know I can
borrow e-books
I know I can't
borrow e-books
9. Difficulties in borrowing e-books
● 56% - they had tried to borrow a particular book
and found that the library did not carry it
● 52% - they discovered there was a waiting list
to borrow the book
● 18% - an e-book they were interested in was
not compatible with the e-reading device they
were using
10. ● 18,000 public libraries partners
● 700,000 e-books
● music and videos available
●
Virtual Branch
●
compatibility with portable devices
●
MARC records
●
integration with ILS
11. ● NetLibrary bought by EBSCO in 2010
● 375 online databases
● 300,000 e-books
●
EBSCOhost platform
●
collection development
●
acquiring models
●
compatibility with portable devices
●
MARC records
12. ● 38,000 partners in 195 countries
● ordering tools
● purchasing e-books before the on-sale date
●
MARC records
●
integration with ILS
13. Acquiring possibilites in Poland
Libraries can:
● buy e-books directly from the publisher or in
the Internet bookshop,
● use a retail vendor offer,
● use a vendor platform.
