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Easy eBooks. 3M Cloud Library and Polaris Library Systems @GMILCS, Inc. ReadersFirst.org. A movement to improve e-book access and services for public library users

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  1. Easy eBooks 3M Cloud Library and Polaris Library Systems @GMILCS, Inc.

  2. ReadersFirst.org • A movement to improve e-book access and services for public library users • Libraries have a responsibility to fight for the public and ensure that users have the same open, easy and free access to e-books that they have come to rely on with physical books.

  3. ReadersFirst.org • Principles: • Search a single catalog • Place holds, check out and otherwise manage a library account in one location • Seamlessly enjoy a variety of e-content • Download ebooks that are compatible with all readers

  4. GMILCS signs with 3M Cloud Library • Librarians came back from PLA excited about the 3M service and its integration with the Polaris Library System • Patiently awaited development of the integration software • Applied for a grant: Thank You to the Samuel P. Hunt Foundation for the $15,000 to get us started.

  5. eBooks @ GMILCS • Consortium of 12 libraries: 10 public, 2 academic • Public libraries were founding members of the NH Downloadable Consortium when we encouraged the NHSL to contract for e-audios with OverDrive in 2005 • Several libraries joined the Advantage program when OverDrive would not negotiate a supplemental program for the GMILCS consortium • Time for an ebook lending service for the consortium—including academic libraries • Continuing with OverDrive, but currently have 2,600 3M titles

  6. Why did we choose the 3M Cloud Library? • **Integration with our Polaris ILS** • Search, check out, check in, holds all within our public catalog • Keeps the community at the library site • MARC records automatically imported • Circulation statistics through Polaris • Uses API and HPPS so the transactions are secure • Ease of use • Adobe ID at the vendor level • Access to books and features from all devices

  7. Why choose 3M Cloud Library • Access to books and features from all devices • Designed for devices with apps • Check out on an iPad, take notes while reading on a PC and finish the book on an Android device! • Easier governance and selection with a smaller consortium • Collection Development Policy: 50% fiction, 25% nonfiction, 25% youth • Shared promotion

  8. Challenges • No audiobooks • No relationship with Amazon, thus only Kindle Fire • At the mercy of publishers: Hachette and MacMillan will not sell to consortiums • Two different platforms for our community • Still need to troubleshoot a variety of devices

  9. Successes • Really easy to use! • My Account shows eBooks checked out and on hold • Statistics with other circulation statistics • Titles imported into public catalog at purchase

  10. Marilyn BorgendaleSystem Administrator • mborg@gmilcs.org • www.gmilcs.org • 603.485.4286

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