[OPEN-ILS-DEV] E-Book Connundrum

[Hardy, Elaine]

I've been looking into this for our libraries. I've found 2 ways that nonEvergreen libraries appear to be handling the devices. They have a record for the device alone. I have not determined yet if they circulate just the Kindle or if they have titles downloaded and a list available outside the catalog. Apparently, some libraries download titles on demand to e-books as well. Other libraries use the record for the device and add 700, 740, 505 and/or 246 fields to the record in their local catalog for the titles downloaded on the device. Obviously, they have nowhere near 1500 titles on the Kindles they loan. Using the indexed fields for at least title and author does allow patrons to find the e-books with those kinds of searches. It does mean, however, that the e-books would be invisible with subject or series searches. As I said in my earlier message, I would much prefer the ability of tying disparate bib records to each other with a single barcode. Since Evergreen does not have that functionality, we are considering at this point having a separate record for each device based on the titles downloaded onto it, using TOCs and headings to indicate which titles are on the particular device. We are debating whether these would be local records only or not. Any other ideas people have for handling the devices in Evergreen would be greatly appreciated. 






Elaine 


J. Elaine Hardy 
PINES Bibliographic Projects & Metadata Manager 
Georgia Public Library Service 
1800 Century Place, Ste 150 
Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304 

404.235-7128 
404.235-7201, fax 
ehardy at georgialibraries.org 
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Duimovich" <George.Duimovich at NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca> 
To: "Evergreen Development Discussion List" <open-ils-dev at list.georgialibraries.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 9:44:05 AM 
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] E-Book Connundrum 

E-Book Connundrum 

Hello all, 

For community feedback as recommended by ESI support. 

A number of libraries are pursuing E-Book pilots. At our shop, our pilot (single device) is already having success and I could see us picking up a few more devices over the winter and full blown roll out with our branches across the country sometime in 2010. We're using the Kindle to pilot, but will be looking at other readers, especially and hopefully those devices with more open format support (e.g. for Epub format, etc.) 

Here's some details on the Kindle device options, but probably similar with other E-Book readers: 

- Users can register up to 6 Kindles per Amazon account 
- When you buy an e-book, you can upload it to all 6 Kindles 
- You can load approximately 1500 books onto each kindle 

So there you have it, up to 1500 bib records could potentially point to a single barcoded device. 

The uptake of these E-Readers is likely to move fast IMHO. Our CIO keeps booking it out on weekends, and we've actually had some traffic coming down to that location to check out the new reader (currently not officially available for loan just yet for our staff). 

Here's an example of NCSU's display of OPAC device with Kindle record details: 

http://www2.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/?view=full&No=0&Ntt=kindle&Ntk=Keyword&N=4294911395 

I understand from ESI that they "currently developing a booking module for Mohawk College which, with minor tweaking, should be able to handle circulating the devices." Additionally, it was noted that "It might be possible, with some development, to make each kindle an Org Unit to handle the records." The latter option would of course permit one to search within a kindle device quite nicely. 

Also noted is the possible use of "dummy copies" (located URIs supported in 1.6.0.0 via the 856 $9 field) so that one could contain information on the location (e.g. "Kindle 01" or "SONY 02" etc.) 

Thoughts / feedback -- ideas on managing E-Books in Evergreen ?? 

Thanks, 

George Duimovich 
NRCan Library / Bibliothèque de RNCan
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