Putting power in the hands of the people has always been at the forefront of the minds in Douglas County Libraries. Now, we're taking things to the next level. Creating in-browser eBook readers, enabling social networking through apps on Facebook, and using an Adobe Content Server to encode digital rights management and circulate titles. We've implemented a recommendation engine in our catalog, launched a mobile app that integrates with OverDrive, and installed digital touchscreen power walls in all of our branches. We've investigated freemium business models, crowd-sourcing and OPDS, embraced VuFind with its eBook integration and discovery features, and become a lending library for the Internet Archive. These projects and more will be discussed, along with the challenges and rewards each of them has brought.

1. We’re in the eBook Business:
Douglas County Libraries’ Adventures
with eContent and ePublishing
Hutch Tibbetts
Digital Resources Librarian

7. DCL Trends in Print Circulation
900000
800000
700000
2010
600000
2011
500000
400000
300000

8. DCL Trends in eBook Circulation
180,780
200,000
180,000
160,000
123,340
140,000
120,000
100,000
80,000 52,820
60,000 28,810
40,000 15,395
20,000
0
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

11. Loss of eBook ownership implications
• Interlibrary loan
• Archival rights
• Vendor’s power to add or remove

13. eContent Previously Unavailable to Libraries
• Independent publishers
• Local historical documents
• Self-published books

15. The DCL eBook Model

18. VuFind Discovery Layer

22. Personalized recommendations

24. iDCL Reader

25. Digital Powerwall

27. Carousel display

28. Challenges
Organizational impact
• Budgetary concerns
• Collection
development
• Acquisition team
• Cataloging team
• IT staff
• Training department
• Frontline staff

29. Challenges
• Adobe Content Server
• ILS integration
• New product
development
• Mobile development

30. Measures of success
• Library as publisher
• eContent all accessible from
single portal
• ePublishing purchasing
agreements

31. DCL eBook Partnerships

32. Measures of success
• Library as publisher
• eContent all accessible from
single portal
• ePublishing purchasing
agreements
• Digital content

35. Measures of success
• Library as publisher
• eContent all accessible from
single portal
• ePublishing purchasing
agreements
• Digital content
• Industry adoption

37. What we’ve learned
• Talking directly to publishers
- Which publishers to approach
- What are their concerns
• Interest from the independents

39. What we’ve learned
• Talking directly to publishers
- Which publishers to approach
- What are their concerns
• Interest from the independents
• How to manage the eContent process

42. Inventing the eBackroom
• This is new for us and for the
publishers. Lots of
handholding, emails, phone calls.
• Book reviews are sparse
• What is a MARC record?
• Cross-department communication
and coordination

43. Still Missing
• Acquisitions system
• Kindle solution
• None of the Big 6 willing to play yet

44. Want more information?
• Managing eContent in libraries
evoke.cvlsites.org
• Adobe Content Server
www.adobe.com/products/content-
server.html
• VuFind
vufind.org
• Douglas County Libraries
douglascountylibraries.org

45. Promotion
http://douglascountylibraries.org/digital-branch

46. Thank you!
Hutch Tibbetts
htibbetts@dclibraries.org