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PRINT ON DEMAND AND PUBLISHING SERVICES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

PRINT ON DEMAND AND PUBLISHING SERVICES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH. Ian Godfrey Joyce Ogburn J. Willard Marriott Library University of Utah. Library organization. University Press Tanner Trust Publications Book Arts Program and Red Butte Press Business Ventures and Partnerships

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PRINT ON DEMAND AND PUBLISHING SERVICES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

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  1. PRINT ON DEMAND AND PUBLISHING SERVICES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Ian Godfrey Joyce Ogburn J. Willard Marriott Library University of Utah

  2. Library organization • University Press • Tanner Trust Publications • Book Arts Program and Red Butte Press • Business Ventures and Partnerships • Publishing Services • Digital Technologies – newspapers, western history and natural resources, Kirtas scanner

  3. Library goals and local opportunities • Experimentation • Aggressive digitization and digital acquisitions • Increase options for access in a variety of forms • More options for purchase versus borrowing • Archiving of theses and dissertations • Expanded publishing and partnership opportunities • Print on demand of e-books and consumer produced materials • Thriving book arts community • Family history and genealogy of great importance

  4. Increasing availability • Digitize public domain titles • Available locally • Add to ODB database and available to anyone with access to EBM • Offer selected University Press backlist titles • More than 100 Anthropological Papers POD and OA on campus • Scan on demand service for rare/unique materials

  5. Espresso Book Machine

  6. On Demand Books • Strategic alliance with LSI • Access to more than 1 million titles from 8,000 publishers • Access to more than 2 million public domain Google books • Access to more than 1 million public domain titles Open Content Alliance

  7. On Demand Books EspressNet • Collection Development • Interlibrary Loan • Patron Print on Demand • Sales from within the University • Sales from outside the University via Google Switchboard

  8. Self Publishing • Professional & Personal • Cover and text block submitted as separate PDFs • 40 to 800 pages • 4.5” x 5.5” to 8.25” x 10.5”

  9. Self Publishing Demands & Uses • Professional • Conference Proceedings • Program booklets and keepsakes • Personal • Journals • Scrapbooks • Novels • Student Projects • University Press • Distribution for other presses and programs • ETDs

  10. Results • EspressNet 5-10 per month • Self Publishing 75-150 per month • Reaching Internal, Campus, Local & International users • Collaboration with the Library Store • Revenue

  11. Lessons Learned • EspressNet metadata is minimal and hard to normalize • Users would like more front list content in EspressNet • Google formatting can produce miss cut book • EBM is providing content to support course work that was otherwise unavailable in print • Perfect bound projects are offering new solutions for student projects as well as departmental publications • The EBM is reaching users outside of our campus and connecting them with other library resources

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