1. Adding local content to
Wisconsin’s Digital Library
WAPL conference
May 10, 2012

2. Handouts
• Wisconsin Heritage Online brochure
• WHO Digital basics
• Supplier (aka author) agreement
• Collection development policy excerpts
and adding content flowchart

3. Local content
• Collection of photographs
• Local author’s latest book
• Author talks
• Video of a community concert
• Recording of a reading from local dignitary
• Out-of-copyright books
• Scrapbooks

4. WHO is a collaborative statewide digitization program sponsored by
Wisconsin Library Services (WiLS)
It provides digitization training, collection
hosting services, and a portal website,
wisconsinheritage.org, where users can
search the collections of all participating
libraries, historical societies and museums.
Over 115,000 digital resources are currently
available through the WHO portal!

5. Community reserve
through OverDrive and the Wisconsin Digital Library
• Hundreds of FREE
library-contributed titles
• Many formats
– Text: EPUB and PDF
– Audiobooks: WMA
(DRM protected) and
MP3
– WMA Music
– WMV video
• NOT a storage solution
for digital collection

6. Community Reserve books show
up in the general catalog search
50 copies is a
clue that it is
from CommRes

7. At a glance
Community Reserve
• Long time storage and • No preservation or ownership:
preservation no permanent URL to access
• Interoperable metadata • No exportable metadata
• Historical primary sources • Primarily for access
• Broad, current and popular

8. Overlapping collections
• Digitize in a repository like WHO first
• OverDrive’s Community Reserve
– Makes it available in another format, to
another audience
– Circ stats can be tracked in OverDrive
– Your content can be picked up nationally
(titles must be available for free for all
OverDrive subscribers)

9. Community Reserve:
Levels of engagement
1. Add existing content
2. Add new content of old works already
digitized
3. Add new content of new works
4. Add new content of old works not
digitized

10. Add existing Community Reserve
content to WDL
Find title in Community Reserve
Browse titles in Community Reserve
• Database of peer-
contributed titles
– 1200+ titles
– FREE
– No accompanying
Download to cataloging
Wisconsin’s Digital Library
• Access to database
tied to Content
Reserve authorization
Example: demo

11. Level of engagement 2: Is it appropriate
Adding new content of old works already digitized for Wisconsin’s No
Example:
Out of copyright local history text from WHS resources
Digital Library?
yes Talk to WHO
Is it available in Refer to your system rep on
OverDrive’s Marketplace? WPLC selection committee
yes Add through
no Community reserve
Buy it, it’s added

12. Level of engagement 3: Is it appropriate
Adding new content of new works for Wisconsin’s
Example: Digital book by a local author
Digital Library?
Is it available in Refer to your system rep on
OverDrive’s Marketplace? WPLC selection committee
Will the author
yes cede rights and shun yes
no
monetary gain?
Buy it, it’s added
Refer author Add through
to other avenues no Community reserve
to get in marketplace

13. Step by step: Digital book by a local author
WPLC selection policy
• Scope: broad, current
and popular
• Criteria include
– Identified, expressed, or
anticipated need in the
general community
– Attention of critics and
reviewers
– Prominence, authority,
significance, and/or
competence of author or
creator

14. OverDrive Marketplace, aka
Content Reserve
• Only two of the “big 6”
publishers sells to
libraries
• $1,000,000 statewide
buying pool for 2012
– Includes $300,000 LSTA
– About 5% acq budgets
– Still hard to keep up with
demand

15. If the book isn’t available in
OverDrive’s Marketplace
• Because of technical and
licensing limitations personally
purchased eBooks can’t be
accepted
• Authors with at least 10-15
published books can apply to
be represented
• For authors with fewer books,
OverDrive suggests working
with an aggregator such as
Independent Publishers Group

16. Community Reserve
• eBooks
– EPUB, PDF
• Audiobooks
– WMA (DRM protected)
– MP3
• WMA Music
• WMV video

17. Adding local author’s book to
Community Reserve
• Refer title to Selection Committee
• Meet with author to agree on the process
– No monetary gain
– Book is available for free download to all other
OverDrive libraries in the U.S.
– Complete the Supplier Agreement Form:
Scan and send to [TBD: WPLC?]
• Create metadata and upload

18. OverDrive metadata
• Limited and general
• No written standards

19. WHO metadata
• Based on Dublin Core, a widely used international
standard
• Guidelines developed by Wisconsin librarians and
archivists, available online at wisheritage.pbworks.com

20. How can Wisconsin develop and
maintain a cooperative collection?
• Parameters: broad current and popular:
what does it mean for local content?
• Procedures and documentation to develop
– Metadata standards
– Administration (securing permissions)
– Storage decisions
• Promotion

21. What to add where
Community Reserve WHO
• Titles already in • Primary sources related to
Community Reserve DB Wisconsin history
• Visual materials--photographs,
• Books out of copyright postcards, maps (but books,
that have been digitized manuscripts, letters, clippings
• Local productions out of are appropriate too)
copyright consideration • Out of copyright or have
secured permission from
• Works by local authors copyright holder
who’ve relinquished their • Digital content that needs the
digital rights assurance of long-term
preservation and accessibility

22. Jane Richard
jrichard@wils.wisc.edu
608-263-5051
Member Services Librarian Project Manager
Wisconsin Library Services Wisconsin Public Library Consortium
Emily Pfotenhauer
epfotenhauer@wils.wisc.edu
608-265-2138