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1. Hutch Tibbetts
Digital Resources Librarian

2. • The rise of e-books and eReaders
• The rise of self-publishing
• The rise of independent publishers
• Lockout/lockdown by the Big 6

5. Loss of ownership
Loss of discounts
Loss on integration
+ one more
No used eBooks or ILL

6. • Managing our own content

8. • Managing our own content
• Value of library market

9. • Can you accept a donation of an eBook?
• And, the Douglas County Libraries Model
was born

10. • Adobe Content Server
• Assign DRM
- Check out eBooks one patron at a time
• HTML5-based online e-reader
• VuFind discovery layer
• Visual displays of eContent
• Buy Now link
• Patron-driven acquisition

29. Virtual Powerwall
vwall.douglascountylibraries.org

32. • Talking directly to publishers
- Which publishers to approach
- What are their concerns
• Interest from the independents
• How to manage the eContent process

33. • This is new for us and for the
publishers. Lots of handholding,
emails, phone calls.
• Book reviews are sparse
• What is a MARC record?
• Cross-department communication and
coordination

34. • Acquisitions system
• Kindle solution
• None of the Big 6 willing to play yet

35. • Yeah, that’s nice for DCL, but what about my
library?

37. • Yeah, that’s nice for DCL, but what about my
library?
• Who else is interested in replicating our
model
• The Colorado effort
http://evoke.cvlsites.org

39. www.adobe.com/products/content-server.html
vufind.org
douglascountylibraries.org

40. Promotion
http://douglascountylibraries.org/digital-branch

41. Hutch Tibbetts
htibbetts@dclibraries.org