eprintid: 186
rev_number: 18
eprint_status: archive
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datestamp: 2009-12-24 21:55:40
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type: monograph
metadata_visibility: show
item_issues_count: 0
creators_name: Anderson, Ivy
creators_name: Anand, Eddie
creators_name: Ayris, Paul
creators_name: Flecker, Dale
creators_name: Nunnenmacher, Lothar 
creators_name: Streefkerk, Marco
creators_name: Tibbetts, Margery
creators_name: Wolven, Bob
creators_name: Younger, Jennifer
creators_name: Beir-Arie, Oren
creators_name: Sanders, Shlomo
creators_name: Spruch, Yohanan
creators_name: Harnish, Kathryn
creators_name: Koppel, Ted
corp_creators: Ex Libris Users of North America
corp_creators: International Group of Ex Libris Users
corp_creators: Ex Libris
title: E-Book Focus Group: Ex Libris/ELUNA/IGeLU Recommendations and Requirementsfor E-Book Functionality

ispublished: pub
subjects: gen
divisions: FocusGroups
abstract: 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). 
date: 2008-02-25
date_type: published
publisher: ELUNA
full_text_status: restricted
monograph_type: project_report
pages: 36
citation:   Anderson, Ivy and Anand, Eddie and Ayris, Paul and Flecker, Dale and Nunnenmacher, Lothar  and Streefkerk, Marco and Tibbetts, Margery and Wolven, Bob and Younger, Jennifer and Beir-Arie, Oren and Sanders, Shlomo and Spruch, Yohanan and Harnish, Kathryn and Koppel, Ted  (2008) E-Book Focus Group: Ex Libris/ELUNA/IGeLU Recommendations and Requirementsfor E-Book Functionality.  Project Report. ELUNA.     
document_url: https://documents.el-una.org/id/eprint/186/1/ebfg_20080429.pdf
document_url: https://documents.el-una.org/id/eprint/186/2/ebfg_exlibris_response_to_the_report.pdf