Books, Our Brand Ebooks, Our Future

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Books, Our BrandE-books, Our Future

• Task Force on the Integration
• of E-books
• OCLC Members Council
• May 21, 2007

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30 Million Books in 10 Years!
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What Does This Mean?
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Task Force on the Integration of e-Books

• Purpose to begin a serious conversation within
  Members Council regarding electronic books
  their impact on libraries, information seekers,
  and OCLC.

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Task Force on the Integration of e-Books

• Patrick Wilkinson
• Rich Van Orden
• Brenda Bailey-Hainer
• Shirley Baker
• Edward Barry
• Stewart Bodner
• Lynn Silipigni Connaway

• Paul Dumont
• Anthony Ferguson
• Janice Franklin
• Marge Gammon
• James LaRue
• Eva Pool
• Sandra Yee

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Task Force on the Integration of e-Books

• Current Landscape
• Library Services Transformed
• Key Observations Questions
• Case Studies (Appendix)
• Draft Recommendations (Discuss Today)

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Business Service Models

• Well earn more from our content as we, and our
  digital partners, find new ways to sell it, rent
  it, syndicate it, license it and aggregate it.
• John Makinson in Financial Times, March 20, 2007

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Barriers to Use

• No common standards
• DRM
• Incompatibility

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Case Studies

• 11 studies so far
• Each case study is unique influenced by local
  vision, environment and finances.
• Common themes
• JISC United Kingdom

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Mass Digitization on Steroids!
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Mass Digitization

• OCLC eContent Synchronization Program

• Increase visibility and access at point of need
• Make all copies available
• Pilot project August 2007

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What Does This Mean

• Transforming traditional library
• Key observations questions
• Draft recommendations