Sentences with phrase «current library model»

If we don't do some very, very serious lobbying very, very soon, eBooks will kill the current library model.

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To address the situation proactively, this budget request contains groupings of service restoration proposals, starting with high impact restorations to allow current library locations to provide more effective public access and service and progressing through a series of service restorations that will pilot and ultimately expand alternate service provision models.

Our online library has data on Alfa Romeo cars spanning from current production models to those that are a couple of years old.

Bilbary, founded by former Waterstones CEO Tim Coates, was developed to bridge the divide that currently exists between publishers and libraries, as well as to offer an alternative to the current ebook lending model.

If the goal is long - term library funding, then libraries need to look beyond current marketing and advocacy models.

All of this expansion serves to help libraries worldwide in their efforts to bring current digital content to their patrons, furthering the climate of digital publishing by enabling an ebook lending model that meets the publishers» and the consumers» needs.

«We generally believe that the current pricing models are not sustainable, and that libraries can not develop collections of critical size if they're paying $ 90 per title or re-buying titles every year,» Anthony said.

While companies like OverDrive and 3M Library System are to be commended and have certainly pioneered the current lending model by striking agreements with major publishers, the subscription fee to participate in those models is still an overwhelming budget item for most smaller libraries.

What would the impact of publishers moving more into e-books as opposed to the current hybrid model be, especially if they applied such ridiculous limits to libraries?

Based on conversations with publishers and deliberations on the ebook market, the ALA today released «Ebook Business Models for Public Libraries» (PDF file) a report that describes general features and attributes of the current ebook environment and outlines constraints and restrictions of current business mModels for Public Libraries» (PDF file) a report that describes general features and attributes of the current ebook environment and outlines constraints and restrictions of current business modelsmodels.

The current model of ebook acquisition for libraries has also created the greatest challenge for libraries.

It's really a much less favorable version of the Harper Collins model) If they continue along these lines, its easy to imagine a future where libraries always have Penguin's current ebook bestsellers but hardly any of their backlist titles.

Public libraries seem to be an end point for media in our current model, what if they were to work with publishers and retailers to become the starting point?

The current issue of the New Yorker has an article by Anthony Grafton called «Digitization and Its Discontents» that discusses the ongoing «tension» between the traditional print library model versus the Google Book projects of the world.