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E-Books: Poison, Medicine, or Nutrition
When Are E-Books the Books? Kimberly Parker ALA 2004 Annual Meeting 28 June 2004
Its varied scenes, its many hopes and fears … Thomas Cole. Thomas Cole's poetry. “Voyage of Life” 1972
An Ebook Is …
• Individual • Package • Historical/Textual • Reference Work • Textbook
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Heav'n grant we be not poison to each other … John Dryden, Sir William Davenant , Thomas Shadwell. The Tempest. Act II Scene 2. 1674
The Metaphor
• Poison • Medicine • Nutrition
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The swelling tide of time ... Robert Anton. The Philosophers Satyrs. The Philosophers Third: Satyr of Iupiter. 1616
Timeline • 1991 Patrologia Latina • 1994 PastMasters • 1996 Oxford English Dictionary (1) • 1997 English Prose Drama • 1999 Early English Books Online (>100,000), Eighteenth Century Fiction, ENGnetBASE, STAT!Ref(9) ALA 2004 Orlando
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And cause and sequence, and the course of time ... Sir Edwin Arnold. The Light of Asia or The Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana). Book the Eighth. 1879
Timeline (cont.)
• 2000 Early English Prose Fiction, etc. • 2001 Books@Ovid(growing to 167), Classic Protestant Texts • 2002ACLS History E-book Project (500), Gutenberg-e, Knovel(174), Wright American Fiction
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What's to be done? Nor time nor tide will wait. Alfred Austin. The Golden Age. 1871
Timeline (cont.) • 2003 Acta Sanctorum, Books 24x7 (2,526), CogNet, Digital Dissertations, Evans Digital Edition (>36,000), netLibrary(3500), SourceOECD, World Bank e-Library(1260) • 2004 BioMedProtocols (373), CinemaGoing, Dekker Ebooks(55), Eighteenth Century Collections Online (>130,000), Safari Tech Books (125)
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It was the crave for intellectual food ... Alfred Domett. Ranolf and Amohia: A Dream of Two Lives. Volume II, Book the Seventh-Self- Sacrifice, Canto the First-Weariness. 1883
Digestible Characteristics
• Reference works • Major historical collections • Textbooks (particularly in specific disciplines) • Reports
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Soliciting the sweet nutrition thence ... James Montgomery. The Poetical Works of James Montgomery. “The Pelican Island: Canto Seventh” 1850
Digestible Characteristics (2)
• Searchability • Small Chunks • Tables of Contents (don‘t force complete downloads) • Not too much authentication interruptions
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Meal Presentation
Ebrary Usage Documents Viewed
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1200 Catalog Online Books 1000 Database
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2004 Medical Campus Survey
100% 90% Library databases 80% (Medline, 70% MicroMedex, 60% PsycINFO) 50% 40% e-journals (e.g., 30% JAMA, Science) 20% 10% 0% Faculty Post Docs,Students electronic books N=111 Clin. N=158 Fellows N=70 Have you used in last 6 months? ALA 2004 Orlando
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A petty Chance to some may fall, But he's the Knave that Picks up all. Richard Ames. Islington-wells; or the Threepenny Academy. 1691
Staff Impacts
• Personal • Job related • Professional
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Large lumps, such as no modern stomach could bear … Thomas Moore. The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. “Anticipated Meeting of the British Association in the Year 2836.” 1840
Indigestions (Going Away)
• MARC records • Intellectual property nerves • Purchase and re-purchase
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Medical Library Policy on Acquiring E-Books • Experimental mode. • E-versions of basic textbooks, reference works, and reserve materials should be purchased instead of or in addition to print. • Liaisons are encouraged to experiment with e-books which do not fit these categories in their subject areas. • Title-level usage statistics will be needed for these experiments to provide the basis for future decisions. ALA 2004 Orlando
… and 'twere seemlier now To stop, and yield … William Wordsworth. The poetical works of William Wordsworth . “The Churchyard Among the Mountains” 1849 - 1850
Thank you
Kimberly Parker, MILS Head, Electronic Collections Yale University Library [email protected]
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