ebooks, march 2015, anne weaver

Ebooks for school librariesBy Anne Weaver

What platform? Commercial? DIY?

Pros ConsCriteria:• One user at a time or unlimited or

limited• Cost• Content suitability: reading age, topics• Time e.g one at a time purchasing time

consuming• Copyright copying• Downloadable? PDF not pdf• Need other software – eg Adobe Digital

Editions• Need extra signin to download – eg

EBSCO• Use offline• Pass through and Single Signon• Easy to import into catalogue• Easy to search• Easy training users• Easy for library staff to manage• Easy access for users• Who owns the resources?• Any more?

Available online from SLQThis article has tables comparing different platforms:

Roncevic, M. (2013). E-book Platforms for Libraries. Library Technology Reports, 49(3), 33.

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Access wayfinding

Bundling of products

Suitability for schools

EBSCO ebooks for schools

Suitability for reading ages

The library catalogue as Information HQ

Set fields e.g. (parameter 4406)

• Google – 32 results default • Oliver 4000 results max. Changeable to less

What page needs to be set up as the starting search page on your catalogue?

Security• Who can see?

• Teachers

• Especially important if externally hosted and no Single Signon

• Go to System, User roles: add security group

• Add individually to each resource or globally to GMD or Bib type etc

Searching on catalogue

In Oliver can choose multiple “Types” in Advanced Search

How will you set these up?• Eshelf: own created pdfs – copyright scanning and licences for textbooks(pdfs) • Edshelf: instructions• Ebooks: commercial ebooks only read online e.g EBSCO and Overcrive

Scanning under copyright – out of print, 1 chapter or 10 %Equity of print of single digital borrow?If unlimited simultaneous borrowing – everyone can accessFile size issues e.g Geography textbook files

Copyright notices

Procedures

Eshelf - PDFs

Ebooks – EBSCO unlimited simultaneous use, offline use, bundle, cannot download

Overdrive – single use

Overdrive: pdf and epub: not single signon; overdrive read is single signon

Overdrive- can read offline, download to browser history

Make your own books. File size- link

Importing eBooks for EBSCO into Oliver• Go to http://psw.oclc.org

• Select Records and Reports

• Select OCLC WorldCat Collection Sets

• Login code: 100 443 210

• Password: AUAHS

• Click on the files you wish to download (you will have 90 days to download these files)

• They will be in .bin format and are very large so will take a few minutes to download

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• In Oliver go to

• Management/ Imports

• Select MARC and click Go

• In the file name field, click browse and navigate to where you have saved the file you wish to import

• In the MARC Format field select MARC21

• (All other fields can remain the same as the defaults)

• Then click Import (top right)

• Note: This import could take up to an hour or more depending on traffic so just be patient and have something else you can go on with while this works in the background.

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• These will be automatically imported as eShelf however we can perform a global change in Oliver to change the Bib Type to be eBook and add a key word of EBSCO to search under.

Next step – screencast for staff and student traininghttps://readingpower.wordpress.com/