1. EBOOKS VIA OPTION ONE
speedy UL service for low*1 number of ebooks
Clemens Gresser, Pendlebury Library of Music
*1 wait for slide 4

2. Option 1
Facs/Deps contribute an
agreed sum into the central pot
at the beginning of the
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financial year (as in previous Uploaded by mandyrc
years)

3. Budget for Ebooks
ca. £400
relating to Music
ca. £255
ca. £655

4. NUMBER OF EBOOKS
Calendar years:
 2010: 14
 2011: 70 56 = Cambridge
 2012: 14 Companions via CUP
 2013 (so far): 1 (!) allowance

5. How does it work?
 Identify need for
ebook (reading lists,
highly-borrowed
items, direct
requests)

6. Email list of potential
candidates to
ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk
Usually reply within
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Eileen Wearne win gold, silver and
bronze medals for Australia in the 220
yard sprint, Empire
options across various
Games, Sydney, 11 February 1938 /
photogr…By State Library of New platforms
South Wales collection

7. A Thu 10/1/2013:
good academic requests
new book
Thu: clarify
order, Thu ebook ok?
24/1/2013 :
for the ebook Thu: email
available
record ebooks team
Thu: ebooks
team reply:
Thu: order options:
with ebooks
team

8. OPTION 1
Pros Cons
 No need to set-up  Smaller potential number of
accounts on various platforms platforms/ aggregators available
 Payment to ebooks team 1x  Less direct monitoring of
a year expenditure during year
 Good for small ebooks
 Not suitable for big ebook
budget & low number of
budget & high volume of
ebooks
ebooks

9. OVERALL
Not enough books available as ebooks
vs.
High interest in academic ebooks from
students and some teaching staff