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E-book content, devices, and services have created challenges for libraries as well as opportunities. Because the e-book playing field is constantly changing, any predictions are, at best, tenuous. Librarians must be resilient in order to manage, and not be managed by, e-books and their progenies. W...

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Main Author: Polanka, Sue (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : American Library Association , c2012
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Going digital but not bookless physical, digital library spaces
  • 2. Do E-books bridge the digital divide?
  • 3: Accessibility issues in e-books and e-book readers
  • 4. Making sense of change
  • 5. E-book preservation
  • 6. Weeding e-books
  • 7. What Is RDA, and why should e-book managers care?
  • 8. Enhanced e-books
  • 9. E-book sea change in public libraries
  • 10. Libraries as zones for content creation, indie publishing, and print on demand
  • 11. Getting control, staying relevant
  • 12. The iPad loaner program at Oberlin College Library
  • 13. Leading and learning
  • 14. E-reader adoption in the school library media center
  • 15: Give them something to talk about
  • 16. Using E-books with reluctant readers