1. Managing Your Future E- Book Collection: From the Librarian’s P.O.V. Beth Avery University of North Texas Beth.avery@unt.edu

2. Acquisitions Issues Availability Few front list titles – 20-30% usually. Release time of electronic version delayed, often more than 60 days.

3. Acquisitions Issues Costs Prices higher than print. Short term loan costs do not count towards purchase price, not even a percentage. Packages “big deals” that we don’t want most of the content. – No discounts except in packages. – Possible solution agreement to spend x amount of individually selected titles in one year for y% discount.

4. Acquisitions Issues Ordering/Purchasing Deduping electronic/print titles. Contract issues. Accounting department issues. – Purchasing an unknown future title list.

5. Acquisitions Issues Resource Sharing Sharing issues for consortia. ILL issues. – Other library may not have appropriate reader – DRM – self destruct after x days.

6. Acquisitions Issues Reporting/Statistics Automatic notification of when access denied frequently so we can purchase additional titles. Easy to retrieve, standardized usage statistics reporting. Better PDA reporting. – What is rejected.

7. Cataloging Issues Quality Issues – Absent OCLC numbers – Missing call numbers and subjects – Missing 240 field for translations – 776 field issues, example frequency = “a few” – Not using Authority control version of names – Ending 520 field (publisher’s blurb) in mid- sentence. – Etc.

8. Access Issues Perception that fewer titles are being made available for multiple/unlimited access. Missing graphics from electronic version. Searchability issues – can you do a word search for entire volume? Variety of platforms with no standardization. – Navigational issues – forward arrow at top and bottom of page.

9. Archiving Issues What does “perpetual access” really mean? Assurance of archiving of earlier editions. Lack of archiving puts scholarly publishing at risk.

10. Future Issues Interfacing with discovery services and tools such as citation managers, embeded dictionaries, etc. Developing metrics for assessing ebook vendors and publishers. Studies of ebook platform usability. Now is the time to work with vendors and publishers to resolve issues.

11. EQUACC EQUACC ALA's Presidential Task Force on Equitable Access to Electronic Content A website, www.equacc.ala.org, was launched on March 28 inviting commentary on the task force’s work in five areas: 1) issues, trends and education on providing accessible content to people with disabilities; 2) building more support and awareness that libraries play an essential role in the e-content world; 3) model projects, including case studies of libraries trying different models for providing accessible content; 4) understanding the existing market and future trends through an environmental scan; and 5) licensing, including the exploration of new and emerging business models for obtaining content from authors, publishers and vendors.