Sessions at Online Information 2011 about eBooks

Thursday 1st December 2011

• eBOOKS UNLEASHED

  by andersmi, James McFarlane, Giulio Blasi, Mary Joan Crowley and John Akeroyd

  TRACK 1 - GOING MOBILE: INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE ON THE MOVE
  SESSION: eBOOKS UNLEASHED

  KEYNOTE: EBOOKS, READING AND CULTURE: WHAT CHANGE CAN WE EXPECT?
  (Anders Mildner, Journalist & Writer, Sweden)

  With eBooks, reading is bound to get social. In other words: reading is becoming a shared experience, for the very first time. What will this mean to the readers, the writers, the publishers – and our culture?

  NEXT GENERATION OF EBOOKS - EPUB3
  (James McFarlane, CEO, Easypress Technologies, UK)

  DIGITAL LENDING MODELS FOR PUBLIC LIBRARIES
  (Giulio Blasi, CEO, Horizons Unlimited srl, Italy)

  MediaLibraryOnLine (www.mlol.it) is the first network of digital public libraries in Italy with about 1.500 public libraries in 6 regions (data June 2011). Through the MLOL's portal, library patrons accede to a growing collection of digital contents including e-books, music, audiobooks, newspapers, videos, learning objects, etc. MLOL is positioned as a “universal” content aggregator with a substantial “technological agnosticism”: this means we integrate a variety of technical/organizational/business models from a variety of publishers/distributors in the world with the objective of building the best possible digital collection, a unified discovery and management interface, a dedicated shopping platform for public libraries.

  Learning points:
  • How to develop a unified interface for digital content in the public libraries
  • How to manage heterogeneous publisher/distributor's models
  • How to manage a digital store for public libraries

  LENDING E-READERS IN AN ACADEMIC LIBRARY: A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT
  (Mary Joan Crowley, Librarian- Dept of Structural & Geotechnical Engineering Faculty, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

  This project brings together a major vendor, a leading Faculty from a renowned Italian university and a Department library working together for excellence with the students of today.

  Here, at the Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, the Library working collaboratively with Faculty identified a pilot project to provide tailored content to our users organized around specific courses on e-readers. This content will consist of the professors’ Lecture Notes, (or Dispense as they are called in Italy), selected library e-books and e-resources and approved web content, all graded according to the special needs and particular level of the student.

  Learning points:
  As an academic librarian my main aim is to:
  provide and ensure quality service for my community by leading the discovery experience;
  integrate digital content in creative ways and deliver it to the point of need;
  build strong collaborative communities among all the players, embedding the library in the process.

  Moderator: John Akeroyd, Director, Information Reports & Honorary Research Fellow, UCL

  LENDING E-READERS IN AN ACADEMIC LIBRARY: A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT
  (Mary Joan Crowley, Librarian- Dept of Structural & Geotechnical Engineering Faculty, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

  This project brings together a major vendor, a leading Faculty from a renowned Italian university and a Department library working together for excellence with the students of today.

  Here, at the Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, the Library working collaboratively with Faculty identified a pilot project to provide tailored content to our users organized around specific courses on e-readers. This content will consist of the professors’ Lecture Notes, (or Dispense as they are called in Italy), selected library e-books and e-resources and approved web content, all graded according to the special needs and particular level of the student.

  Learning points:
  As an academic librarian my main aim is to:
  provide and ensure quality service for my community by leading the discovery experience;
  integrate digital content in creative ways and deliver it to the point of need;
  build strong collaborative communities among all the players, embedding the library in the process.

  Moderator: John Akeroyd, Director, Information Reports & Honorary Research Fellow, UCL

  • eBooks

  At 9:30am to 11:00am, Thursday 1st December