EBook Interlibrary Loan in American Public Libraries

In recent years, eBook collections have been increasing at a slow but steady rate in both public and academic libraries. With the increasing eBook collections in libraries and the advancements made in information discovering services, users can now discover materials existing outside of their local library more easily. EBooks also offer the potential for quick interlibrary loan delivery. Ironically, eBook interlibrary loan has not become prevalent in libraries. Many studies have been done to explore eBook licensing and interlibrary loan in academic libraries and to offer practical solutions for eBook interlibrary lending. Few studies have been done in public libraries. This study explores the current practice of eBook interlibrary loan activities in American public libraries. Survey questionnaires were distributed to 118 randomly selected public libraries. Questions focused on current eBook interlibrary loan best practices, issues, and obstacles in American public libraries. Findings from this study indicate eBook ILL is not a priority for the surveyed public libraries, and the adoption rate of eBook ILL in public libraries is much lower than that in academic libraries.     

What's the delay? Managing e and p publication dates

This case study describes the challenges of acquiring eBooks on an approval plan due to publication delays between print and electronic formats. The purpose of this analysis was to determine the average delay between print and eBook publication dates so that appropriate hold periods could be built into the libraries' approval plan. Print publication dates were compared to eBook publication dates for approximately 30,000 eBooks to calculate the average delay between print and eBook availability. The data was further analyzed to calculate average delays for select publishers and subjects.     

电子图书定价模式研究

主要描述和分析电子图书提供商（出版商和集成商）的七种定价模式。在此基础上,对图书馆如何选择适合本馆实际购买力和需求的定价模式提出了相应的策略建议,并从图书馆对电子图书提供商今后定价模式的影响入手,指出双赢的定价模式需要图书馆与电子图书提供商的共同协作。     

加拿大图书馆电子书购买许可模式与借阅政策研究

[目的/意义]了解加拿大电子书的发展情况,调研梳理加拿大图书馆电子书购买许可模式与借阅政策,为国内图书馆电子书借阅政策的制定提供参考。[方法/过程]通过文献调研和个案分析的方法总结加拿大图书馆电子书购买许可模式及借阅规则,通过网站调研的方法了解和分析加拿大2012年电子书支付费用前15名公共图书馆的电子书借阅政策。[结果/结论]加拿大图书馆电子书购买实践中存在5种以上的购买许可模式,电子书借阅也制定了非常完善的借阅政策。国内图书馆界需借鉴加拿大的成功经验,丰富电子书购买许可模式,强化相关学协会作用并从实际出发制定本馆较为完善的电子书借阅政策。     

电子图书版权问题研究

电子图书版权问题已成为人们关注的焦点。文章首先概述了电子图书纠纷不断的现状；然后分析了形成的原因：主要是电子图书易于复制、下载，版权界限模糊，理论上有盲点和难点、认定困难等；接着提出了解决这一问题的三条思路：即完善版权保护的措施和法规，实施及时有效的版权管理和加密技术等。     

Impacting Forces on eBook Business Models Development

As eBook and related technologies continue their relentless advance, book publishers face a veritable digital siege. Nevertheless, technology remains an enabler, a set of tools and facilitators, albeit linked to the potential for new entrants to the market and indeed, disintermediation. However, the fundamentals are to do with markets, organizational strategies and structures, and with finding answers to hard commercial questions about cost and profit, infrastructure management and sustainability all as reflected in appropriate business models. Underlying these is a range of internal and external forces, not all of which are negative in their effects, as witness signs of improvement in an eBook market faced with greatly reduced planning horizons and the need for dynamic product and marketing mixes. This paper addresses a range of responses by book publishers to such challenges and concludes by reviewing the resulting several business models currently in place for eBook publishing.     

The Development and Future of the Japanese Ebook Market

The combination of Japan’s large, prosperous population and its thriving consumer electronics industry appears to the outside world to be an ideal environment for eBook adoption. In fact, despite cross industry initiatives that date back to 2003, widespread digitization of books is limited to Japanese comics (manga). This article will explain the origins of the Japanese eBook market, its current state and the looming entry of Amazon, Apple and Google. Finally, this article will explore the two very different paths that the Japanese publishing industry may take over the next 5 years.     

基于MARC21的电子图书编目研究

以ISBD(ER)、AACR2相关规则为依据，结合对电子图书的范围、特点的分析，对采用MARC21进行电子图书编目的方法及注意事项进行分析探讨。     

当“一专”遇到“多能”——浅析当前流行便携式电子书阅读平台在图书馆的应用前景

随着数字化出版物的出现和普及,使用便携式电子书阅读平台进行阅读是近年来兴起的一种新方式。作为提供公共阅读资源的主要来源之一,图书馆在新技术引领的一波又一波数字化革命中不断受到影响和冲击。只有根据不断变化的环境持续性地调整自身的资源组织方式,并拓展所提供的服务来满足读者和用户的需求,图书馆才能够成功面对这些挑战并生存下来。文章从不同便携式电子书阅读平台的异同入手,从图书馆应用的角度对图书馆提供电子阅读服务进行了分析。     

论高校图书馆数字馆藏建设的若干问题

针对高校图书馆数字馆藏的合理布局、主要内容和建设方法展开讨论,认为高校图书馆馆藏的合理布局决定数字馆藏的主要内容,包括数字化的重要书库、核心期刊库、多媒体数据库、机构知识库和特色馆藏库5个部分,并强调建设数字馆藏需要制定发展计划和设计建设方案。     

电子书阅读器，现在与未来的桥梁——2009年电子书阅读器产业的发展与影响述评

电子书阅读器在2009年是一个相当热门的话题,以亚马逊的电子书阅读器Kindle为代表的阅读器产品也成为市场上抢手的产品。电子书阅读器产业的发展也带动了真正的电子图书个人消费的增长,使得电子图书从B2B市场开始走向B2C市场,从而推动了整个出版产业的数字化进程。文章介绍了电子书阅读器的概念、技术与历史,回顾了2009年整个产业发展的进程,也分析了电子书阅读器与电子书内容相关联的商务模式和博弈双方的互相促进作用。同时评论了国内外图书馆对电子书阅读器的相关应用。最后本文指出电子书阅读器起到了连接传统出版与数字出版、传统阅读与数字阅读以及纸质社会与无纸化社会的桥梁的作用,作为深受影响的图书馆行业应该做好迎接未来的准备。     

Evidence-Based Acquisition: A Real Life Account of Managing the Program Within The Orbis Cascade Alliance

In 2015 the Orbis Cascade Alliance investigated a consortium wide evidence-based acquisition (EBA) model to incorporate into its established eBook program, and began a pilot of Wiley’s Usage Based Collection Management Model. EBA is an acquisition model that grants library patrons access to a title list over an agreed-upon time period for a pre-negotiated amount of money, and titles from that list are then selected for purchase based on the evidence of usage from the initial access period. This article shares the consortium’s experiences evaluating usage, managing titles and records, controlling duplication, predicting costs, and the inclusion of MARC records to enhance discoverability.     

中西文电子图书系统比较分析

对超星数字图书馆、中国数图有限公司网上图书馆、书生之家“中华图书网”和方正Apabi数字图书馆及Netlibrary、Ebrary、Safari和knovel等8个电子图书系统的概况、内容、检索界面、导航功能、订购模式和整合功能进行了比较分析,以期对中西文电子图书数据库加深了解,并为国内电子图书的发展提出一些建议。     

台湾电子书产业的发展因素与方向

近一年来,电子书这个名词在Amazon Kindle的热卖下又火了起来,但相关新闻与报导多集中在电子书阅读器,为让读者能够了解电子书发展的全貌,故特别探讨电子书相关的六个因素,包括:内容、软件、载体、通路、服务、读者等,期望透过本文将台湾电子书产业的发展因素与方向做清楚的介绍。     

对电子图书浏览器的理性思考

目前，比较流行的电子图书浏览器有Adobe Acrobat Reader、Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader、超星图书阅览器、中国数图浏览器、书生数字信息阅读器、百博电子图书阅读器、方正Apabi Reader等。它们名称各异、功能大同小异，互不兼容。各电子图书浏览器开发商自我发展，缺少行业标准的约束，很大程度上影响着我国数字图书馆的发展建设。针对这种趋势与前景，作者提出了自己的看法与观点。     

OverDrive图书馆移动阅读解决方案及其特点

OverDrive是国外最大的电子书和数字媒体传播商,针对图书馆业务,OverDrive成功开发了数字图书馆仓储,建立了有效的移动阅读解决方案。文章从发展概况、特点、不足与建议四个方面对OverDrive移动阅读解决方案进行了分析。文章讨论了OverDrive的三个特点:开放性、专业性和人性化,分析了OverDriver的不足,即过度开放带来的问题与OverDrive可用性方面的问题,并对我国图书馆开展移动阅读业务提出了建议。     

The Current Budget Environment and Its Impact on Libraries,Publishers and Vendors

ABSTRACT

The economic downturn and continuing budget concerns have libraries, publishers, and vendors making strategic changes as they seek to provide a high-level of services at a time when uncertainty continues to dominate planning and development. Creative thinking has become the norm as organizations seek to challenge long-held views and uncover and implement needed changes. Librarians, publishers, and vendors have all experienced a period of assessment, strategic review, and reaction as a result of the continued evolution from a print-based model to one dominated by electronic dissemination of scholarly information and the new role eBooks promise to play. This article addresses some of the important actions taken by librarians, publishers and vendors to cope with changes forced by both the economy and budget pressures, by the continued migration of scholarly resources to electronic formats, and by current and planned eBook activities and new eBooks models. It explores patterns in library content selection and spending trends, publisher prices and pricing models, as well as vendor strategies and challenges.     

学术电子图书联盟模式——大中华地区英文图书采购的多重案例研究

本文简介香港城市大学邵逸夫图书馆与ERALL(香港8所大学图书馆)、Cicada(香港与台湾48所大学图书馆)以及CASHL(香港与大陆15所大学图书馆)的案例。透过多重案例研究,提出跨校学术电子图书联盟的运行模式,包括:(1)对采购对象的讨论;(2)对每一电子图书供应商所提出之价格、质量和内容的调查;(3)对权限、回溯年份、刊物数量的谈判;(4)组团;(5)选书;(6)推广教育;(7)技术报告;(8)研讨会;(9)不同地区的人力成本等因素。建议未来研究:重组图书馆人力与业务以提升整合纸本图书、电子图书、纸本期刊、电子期刊的服务。对图书馆员和图书供应商而言,这份调查或可作为发展馆际合作、联合采购与相关服务的重要参考。     

一论知识服务的概念内涵——基于产业实践视角的考察

在回顾当前图书情报学界对知识服务概念研究的基础上,指出目前图书情报学界对知识服务概念的界定不明,导致过分贬低信息服务而自身又缺乏完善理论体系的问题,最后从知识服务产业实践分析的角度,给出了对知识服务概念新的界定方式。