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Building an E-‐Book Collection Building an E-book Collection Amanda Jacobs Foust February 9, 2016 Archived Webinar: https://infopeople.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=559 • American Library Association’s (ALA) e-book resources: http://www.ala.org/transforminglibraries/e-books-digital-content • ALA’s First sale doctrine in the era of digital networks: http://www.ala.org/transforminglibraries/first-sale-doctrine-era-digital-networks • ALA’s Authors for e-books: http://www.ala.org/transforminglibraries/a4le • ALA’s e-Book Penetration Reports: http://www.ala.org/transforminglibraries/ebook-penetration-reports • American Libraries: What’s in store for e-Books: http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2016/01/04/whats-store-ebooks/ • Baen Free Library. Baen Books is now making available — for free — a number of its titles in electronic format: http://www.baen.com/categories/free-library.html • Bartelby ebooks, The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction: http://www.bartleby.com/ebook/ • The Digital Public Library of America: http://dp.la/ • E-book Merchandising - An Infopeople Webinar: In this February 2014 webinar, presenter Stephanie Anderson discusses a plan for e-book merchandising in your library and online. https://infopeople.org/civicrm/event/info?id=366&reset=1 • Feedbooks Public Domain e-Books: http://www.feedbooks.com/publicdomain • The Institute of Museum and Library Services’ President Obama announces open e-books and connected library challenge: https://www.imls.gov/news-events/news-releases/president-obama- announces-open-ebooks-and-connected-library-challenge • Internet Archive: https://archive.org/index.php • Library Simplified. With the help of this Institute of Museum and Library Services, ten public libraries across the United States are exploring library policies and building new technology to make the libraries and their digital collections easier to access: http://www.librarysimplified.org/index.html • Marin County Free Library's presentation given at Internet Librarian 2014 on how the library is training staff on eBooks: http://www.slideshare.net/marincountyfreelibrary/internet-librarian-2014- presentation-ebook-academy-presen • Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published: https://openlibrary.org/ • Pew Research Center’s 7 surprises about libraries in our surveys: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact- tank/2014/06/30/7-surprises-about-libraries-in-our-surveys/ • Pew Research Center’s The Rise of e-reading: http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2012/04/04/the-rise- of-e-reading/ • Pew Research Center’s Slightly Fewer Americans are reading print books, new survey finds: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/10/19/slightly-fewer-americans-are-reading-print-books- new-survey-finds/ • Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/ • Unglue it. Traditionally published books are stuck. Legal restrictions keep you from being able to enjoy and share them. Unglue.it gets them unstuck. Authors and publishers decide what amount lets them freely share their books with the world while still making a living: https://unglue.it/ Infopeople webinars are supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. This material is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Share & Share-Alike license. Use of this material should credit the author and funding source. .
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