It's our hope that we can get Sue to sit down for a few minutes and answer a few questions from us as soon as the book becomes available.
In this NSR Blog post, Sue shares the table of contents and the introduction. Here's one paragraph from it.
No Shelf Required: E-books in Libraries offers readers an opportunity to explore the challenges that e-books bring to our libraries and our businesses. It offers innovative ideas on how to integrate e-books into our libraries. It explores complicated issues with e-books in libraries and offers suggestions about how to proceed. This book is an edited work, including contributions from academic, school, and public librarians, faculty, publishers, and vendors. Readers may wish to read the entire work or select chapters. Because chapters are written to stand alone, topics may be discussed more than once, but in different contexts.
Sue has put together and edited material from an all-star list of contributors including:
+ James Galbraith
+ Jackie Collier and Susan Berg
+ Shonda Brisco
+ Amy Pawlowski
+ Lindsey Schell
+ Blaise Dierks
+ Anne Behler
+ Carolyn Morris and Lisa Sibert
+ Alice Crosetto
+ Emilie Delquié and Sue Polanka
+ Rolf Janke
The book will be available in print and electronic versions later this month.
$65.00
200 pages
6" x 9"
Softcover
+ ISBN-10: 0838910548
+ ISBN-13: 978-0838910542
Here's the Blurb from ALA Web Site:
E-books have been around for more than 10 years but are still a relatively new phenomenon to many librarians and publishers. With the introduction of e-book readers, the e-book has become mainstream, with recent triple-digit annual increases in sales. But what place do they have in the library? In this volume, Sue Polanka brings together a variety of professionals to share their expertise about e-books with librarians and publishers. Providing forward-thinking ideas while remaining grounded in practical information that can be implemented in all kinds of libraries, the topics explored include
+ An introduction to e-books, the different types, and an overview of their history and development
+ E-book technology: general features of interfaces and e-book readers, best practices for acquisition, data standards, and how to track usage
+ Why e-books are good for learning, and how librarians can market them to a wide range of users, as illustrated by case studies and examples
This crucial collection is a must-read for librarians who wish to understand how e-books fit into today’s library.
We wish Sue the very best with her book that will become required reading for seasoned veterans, library/info science students, publishing study programs, educators, and many others.
It wouldn't be at all surprising to see No Shelf Required become a textbook used in LIS programs around the world.
1) When we learned that our blog (yes, ResourceShelf) came in 2nd place in the Salem Press Library Blog Awards (Academic Category) we were thrilled (understatement). The fact that ResourceShelf would be mentioned in the same breath as NSR made it even more exciting.
2) We can't talk e-books with mentioning another essential source that we mention quite a bit on ResourceShelf, TeleRead. Paul Biba does an outstanding job and it's a blog/feed worthy of your attention. You'll often find ResourceShelf material on TeleRead. Thanks Paul!
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