Sarah Falls presentation at the "How do we shelve it? The place for Vendor-provided electronic titles in art and architecture collections" session at the VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd Joint Conference in Minneapolis, MN.

1. One at a Time: Recent Experiences in Ebook Title Selection for an Art and Design School LibraryARLIS-NA/VRA Joint ConferenceMinneapolis 2011 Sarah Falls Director of the Library New York School of Interior Design March 26, 2011 sfalls@nysid.edu

2. Ebooks sold by library vendors such as Ebrary, NetLibrary and others Books that contain scholarly or research based content Art and Architecture subjects, but also those ancillary to Art and Design history Today we’ll be talking about…

3. Project Guttenberg in 1971 Readers hit the market 1998-2000 Clifford Lynch article 2001 Sony Reader 2006 Kindle 2007 , 2-3 million Kindles sold by 2009, Amazon sells more downloads than physical books Dec. 2009 Bowker annual statistics on Ebooks, $67 million segment of publishing industry in 2008 Background on Ebooks for consumers

4. Google Books court decision

5. Licensing of Content by Harper

6. New York School of Interior Design Library facts 15,000 books and journals Two campuses, Grad and Undergrad—library in Undergrad 750 students with median age of 29 Many commuter students/non-residential Many new programs, MFA 1, MPS in Sustainable Design Before July 2010, no full text journal offerings or Ebooks, outdated website and no Ezproxy Library is full, without ability to expand due to floor load problems Background on NYSID

7. New Graduate Center with no library New programs—particularly one on sustainability Fewer physical books on shelves Provide general reference collection to the Grad Center and those at home Textbooks/Reserves NYSID Needed Ebooks to Support

8. Importance of images relative to text Text of primary importance to collection (i.e. should it be collected as a matter of record) or ancillary to collection? Software manual Was it to be used as a reserve title, core text or textbook—particularly for the Grad Center? Edition—how soon will a new addition be available? Fewer platforms, the better (fewer license agreements, vendor relationships, catalog record sources and software types to learn and teach) Single or Multiple user available? Core titles from Ebrary, with some collecting from Oxford U.P. and Wiley Software platform? Ease of use, use with mobile devices, added value available through searching? Transformative use. Collection Development Criteria

9. General Reference Books on Fine/Decorative Arts, Architecture, Interior DesignArchitectural and Design TheoryProfessional PracticeSustainabilityLandscape Architecture Subject Areas That Fit Criteria

10. EBook never wears out and don’t take shelf space Reach a broader audience Students don’t have to buy textbooks with MUPO titles Emergence of the Ipad helps with Ebrary web based book ---------------------- Students expect content to be portable and downloadable, even to phones Some titles aren’t available as SUPO and were in heavy use Multiple platforms and software types are confusing to students Ebrary is not easy to use and terrible to print from Hard time with consortial catalog—a year out, Ebooks still not in catalog properly Pros/Cons

11. Interoperability: Ebrary

12. Interoperability: Wiley Interscience

13. Dealt with YBP to obtain Ebrary books, initial links were bad Wiley Interscience supplies MARC through OCLC, but will not supply this way if purchased through YBP NYU consortium cataloging problematic—we were first institution outside NYU to purchase and add records to BobCat. One year from date of purchase to add records to catalog, problems with proxy mean the link is still not operable Plain old SNAFU’s

14. Local Challenge: Access

15. What will the outcome of the Proquest/Ebrary merger be? How will licensing affect use of MUPO’s? How can we integrate Google content with searching in our catalog? Not presently supported by BobCat. What will the future of Google Books be? Curating of Open Access titles for addition to catalog? Should we buy from additional vendors? Can we have enough Ebooks to truly support the Grad Center? Upcoming Challenges

16. Horizon Report 2011: http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2011-Horizon-Report.pdf Names Ebooksand Mobile devices as the #1 technologies hitting campuses right now (for second year in a row) and their impact. No Shelf Required (blog): http://www.libraries.wright.edu/noshelfrequired/ Blog by librarian covers all the up-to-date news on the topic for Academic libraries. It’s quite thorough. No Shelf Required (book) by Sue Polanka, 2010. Clifford Lynch, 2001 article on the future of Ebooks from First Monday. http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/864/773 Sources consulted and recommended

17. Thanks! Sarah Falls sfalls@nysid.edu Final thoughts, questions