TY  - RPRT
Y1  - 2008/02/25/
TI  - E-Book Focus Group: Ex Libris/ELUNA/IGeLU Recommendations and Requirementsfor E-Book Functionality

A1  - Anderson, Ivy
A1  - Anand, Eddie
A1  - Ayris, Paul
A1  - Flecker, Dale
A1  - Nunnenmacher, Lothar 
A1  - Streefkerk, Marco
A1  - Tibbetts, Margery
A1  - Wolven, Bob
A1  - Younger, Jennifer
A1  - Beir-Arie, Oren
A1  - Sanders, Shlomo
A1  - Spruch, Yohanan
A1  - Harnish, Kathryn
A1  - Koppel, Ted
PB  - ELUNA
AV  - restricted
UR  - https://documents.el-una.org/id/eprint/186/
M1  - project_report
ID  - eluna186
N2  - After years of hype accompanied by only desultory growth, the number of e-books available on the Internet has suddenly begun to grow dramatically. Sources of growth include not just traditional book publishers, but also mass digitization by players like Google, library-based digitization such as Making of America and the Million Book Project, and open access initiatives around the world. Libraries will need to manage and provide appropriate access to these books.

The coming of e-books will have implications for most of the systems Ex Libris offers. Ebooks provide a number of challenges different than those of e-journals. The scale is much larger (millions of e-books versus a few tens of thousands of e-journals). Books are ?bibliographically? more complex versions, editions, manifestations), which demands more sophisticated discovery and elivery functions. Identifiers, critical in linking applications, are spottier and more complex. And free content is much more common in the e-book world, challenging established workflows and information flows supporting library acquisition, cataloging and access.

The Focus Group discussed the nature of the evolving e-book environment, and analyzed in some depth the issues raised by e-books in four areas: discovery, linking, management, and delivery. It identified new requirements necessary to support e-books within Ex Libris?s products and ranked these in terms of their short-term and long-term importance (see Appendix A for full details of the ranking process and results). 
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