2019 Electronic Resources & Libraries Annual Conference: Full Schedule

1:30pm CST

S16-02: Evident Winners: Comparing Print and Online Book Usage Across Two Large Evidence-Based Selection Projects

Evidence-based models of acquisition represent a post-DDA wave in the ebooks market for academic libraries. Successful EBA projects with Taylor & Francis and JSTOR run concurrently at UCSD and now provide a rich testbed to help reveal discoverability and usage of the online pools in tandem with their matching print holdings.

*This 15-minute short talk is one part of the 45-minute session.

Speakers

Harold Colson

eBooks Strategist, US History Librarian, International Relations Librarian, Social Sciences Collection Strategist, UC San Diego

Harold has been a selector and subject liaison at UCSD since 1988. He holds degrees from Wake Forest University and Indiana University. Cannot resist these conversation starters: Rolling Stones, craft beer, college football, genealogy, Route 66, Moomins.

Monday March 4, 2019 1:30pm - 1:45pm CST
Room 301

2. Collection Development & Assessment

Online Conference Availability Available On Demand
Keywords ebooks, EBA
Audience Level 1. Foundation

3:45pm CST

Building a Sustainable Etextbook Program: a case study by Imperial College London

SESSION VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE

Gavin Phillips, the Acquisitions Services Manager at Imperial College London, will talk about why the library chose to provide textbooks to students, how they have funded their project, and why they chose Bibliotech, a new ebook platform seeking to disrupt the market.

Speakers

Vanessa Gamet, MLIS

Director of Library Sales, Bibliotech

loves books, cats, dogs, and carbs- not necessarily in that order.

Gavin Phillips

Acquisitions Services Manager, Imperial College London

I manage the acquisition of books and e-books to support teaching and research at Imperial College London. This includes Library provision of e-textbooks to students. Within the UK Higher Education sector I am involved in the development and management of print and digital book supply... Read More →

Sponsors

Bibliotech

Table 102

Founded in 2014 by university students with the mission of building an ebook platform to better suit the needs of users, Bibliotech has since matured into a company that is the preferred etextbook solution for over 30 leading UK universities. Bibliotech offers multiple distribution... Read More →

Monday March 4, 2019 3:45pm - 4:30pm CST
Room 202

Sponsored Session, 2. Collection Development & Assessment

Programming Type Sponsored Session
Online Conference Availability Available On Demand
Keywords etextbooks, ebooks, budgets, equity of access

1:30pm CST

S52: Open Access Ebook Management

This session will examine the current publishing landscape for open access ebooks, including the diversity of funding models; issues, challenges and best practices for supporting and managing OA ebooks and future trends for OA ebook publishing in the face of an uncertain book publishing market.

Speakers

Eugenia Beh

Scholarly Communications and Licensing Librarian, MIT Libraries

Eugenia Beh is the Scholarly Communications and Licensing Librarian at the MIT Libraries.

Xiaoyan Song

Electronic Resources Librarian, North Carolina State University Libraries

Xiaoyan Song is the Electronic Resource Librarian (ERL) at the Monograph Unit in the Acquisition and Discovery (A&D) department at NCSU Libraries. She mingles with all aspects of ebooks including acquisition, license negotiation, activation, ebook troubleshooting, and workflow mapping... Read More →

Tuesday March 5, 2019 1:30pm - 2:15pm CST
Zlotnik 4

1. Managing e-Resources & Licensing

Online Conference Availability Available Live and On Demand
Keywords open access, ebooks, electronic resources
Audience Level 1. Foundation