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Establishing an Ebook Beachhead: 2011 Carol A. Kearney Leadership Retreat. Josh Hadro Executive Editor, Digital Products Library Journal , School Library Journal , and The Horn Book jhadro@mediasourceinc.com @Hadro on Twitter. Outline. A perspective on the big ebook picture
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Establishing an Ebook Beachhead: 2011 Carol A. Kearney Leadership Retreat Josh Hadro Executive Editor, Digital Products Library Journal, School Library Journal, and The Horn Book jhadro@mediasourceinc.com @Hadro on Twitter
Outline • A perspective on the big ebook picture • Stats on ebooks in school libraries (and some publics, too) • Ereaders in schools • Ebooks in browsers • Wrapping up: How can we make this the most useful for you?
Themes for today • Think broadly about ebooks + ereading (decoupled perspective) • Establish a beachhead (ebook + ereading, ASAP)
http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=library+ebooks+&t=weeklyhttp://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=library+ebooks+&t=weekly
http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/communityacademiclibraries/887522-419/the_pre-college_life_of_readers.html.csphttp://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/communityacademiclibraries/887522-419/the_pre-college_life_of_readers.html.csp
Q: If you were given an ebook reader as part of a school package, do you think you would use ebooks for school and pleasure reading? “I might use them, but with the whole problem that you can only download certain books with certain different ereaders, it doesn't seem like a really good option.” “I'd still much rather have the text—I write everywhere, I highlight everything, I like to be able to know where I am in the book.”
“By far the most troublesome feedback we received during the study was from a faculty member who felt that his students' comprehension of the reading materials suffered from use of the Kindle DX.” http://www.reed.edu/cis/about/kindle_pilot/Reed_Kindle_report.pdf
Donald J. LeuJohn and Maria Neag Endowed Chair in Literacy and TechnologyProfessor of EducationDirector, New Literacies Research Lab http://www.education.uconn.edu/directory/details.cfm?id=46
"Ereaders to me are a transitionary phase." The current hardware frenzy obscures the fact that students ages 8-18 spend more time reading online (48 minutes per day) than offline (43 minutes per day), and have for some years now.
873 respondents 91% public schools 92% “Library media Specialist” or “Teacher librarian” Mean # of students: 716 Demographics
Do you offer ebooks? 2011
We added a few new categories for the 2011 survey. • Classic literature: 37% • Graphic novels: 14% • Textbooks: 4%
+36% +26%
(Caveat: preliminary data)
76% public librariesoffering ebooks (up from 72% in 2010)
A quick interlude: Trade publishing is still figuring it out, same as libraries… • HarperCollins – 26-loan cap • Hachette (Little Brown Kids, Teens, etc.) • MacMillan (Children's, Holt for Young Readers, etc.) • Simon & Schuster
Can we wait to go heavy into e? Shouldn’t we prepare for what’s to come and not focus just on what we’ve got now? -- Linda W. Braun, YALSA Blog Manager and High School Librarian, and YALSA Immediate Past President http://yalsa.ala.org/blog/2011/04/21/pointcounter-point-hot-topics-in-teen-services-how-far-to-go-with-e-collections/
Establish a beachhead for digital books http://www.libraryjournal.com/slj/printissue/currentissue/857830-427/as_goes_california_a_flawed.html.csp
If you’re going to go the ereader route… • Start with what Buffy Hamilton has done • Seriously, read:http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com
VS http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/why-we-wont-purchase-more-kindles-at-the-unquiet-library/
Follow her ereader experiments and trials Mine her presentations for the gold in them hills: http://www.slideshare.net/buffyjhamilton (84 presentations!)
...but you don't have to go the way of the hardware ereader.
you don't need a Kindle, you have the desktop." -- Anita Beaman, Director of the School Librarian Program at Illinois State University http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/home/891266-312/tech_trends_iste_2011_don.html.csp
But they’re not ideal. Difficult library management. Some content is still ereader only. You can use commercial ereader desktop apps…
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/?cat=833709&pro=379&store=ebookhttp://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/?cat=833709&pro=379&store=ebook
Any variety of other content sources • Follett Shelf • Capstone Library • Tumblebooks • Blio • Etc.