Comments on: Ebooks and Libraries: Like Peanut Butter & Chocolate or Oil & Water?

By: Bobbi Newman

Bobbi Newman — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:52:37 +0000

Char – thank you for letting me know! It is an interesting time for libraries!

By: Char Bohnett @ Midwest Tape

Char Bohnett @ Midwest Tape — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:27:44 +0000

Midwest Tape linked to your blog post at http://www.mwtnewsandviews.com/2010/07/libraries-ebooks-and-drm-debate.html.

By: Bobbi Newman

Bobbi Newman — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:52:09 +0000

Jennifer, great video! Thank you for sharing the link.
Libraries are in a tough spot there are all sorts of reasons why we need to adopt ebooks but DRM issues make it much more difficult than it needs to be.

By: eli

eli — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:15:20 +0000

I think a better pair of scenarios is “Like Newspapers and The Web, or Like Travel Agents and The Web?” Either we’re going to reinvent ourselves in bold new directions, or our industry will shrink to a shadow of its former self as more and more core services get frozen out of the market.

I think it’s most helpful to assume that the battle is already over, and that libraries lost, and that we will never again have the same opportunity to distribute commercial content that we did in the years between Gutenberg and Berners-Lee. If a great solution comes along, that’s awesome, but pinning the future of libraries on publishers inviting us into the distribution channel is wistfully poor strategy. We may be at the table, but we have no cards.

By: BillDrew4

BillDrew4 — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:18:19 +0000

RT @librarianbyday: Ebooks and Libraries: Like Peanut Butter & Chocolate or Oil & Water? http://librarianbyday.net/2010/06/ebooks…

By: Jennifer LaGarde

Jennifer LaGarde — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:59:55 +0000

As a school librarian, I’ve been reticent to jump on the eBook bandwagon for all of the reasons that were discussed on twitter. Frankly, the industry has made embracing this technology at the school library level at best clunky and at worst completely undesirable. However. if you watch this video (starting at around 5.40) it makes having eBooks available in some form, particularly one that allows for bookmarking and annotation, seem like something of an imperative — particularly for those students for whom the traditional “analog classroom” is a recipe for disaster. Here’s the video: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/11/philip-zimbardo-on-t.html

By: Indonesia Librarian's Mobile Blogging

Indonesia Librarian's Mobile Blogging — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:59:39 +0000

Ebook and library is like peanuts and chocolate. It’s complementary. Library should follow the advantage of ICT. If it doesn’t, library would be left by users.