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Kindles and iPads and Nooks, Oh My!

eBooks in Duke Libraries

Presentation for the CIT Showcase

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Provide a way for patrons to interact with new and emerging book and information technologies

Increase access to high-demand titles

We began with 12 Kindles and then added an additional 12 Kindles and 15 Nooks.

Providing many books available to users at a fraction of the cost of a popular print book.

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Purpose

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Highest circulation titles in current literature collections

Titles in these collections with more than 3 hold requests

Newly published titles in high demand (e.g. Fall of Giants by Ken Follett)

Patron purchase suggestions

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Selection Criteria

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Selected Duke University Press books are now on the Kindles!

Examples: Higher Ground: ethics and leadership in the

modern university 36 views of Mount Fuji: on finding myself in Japan

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New this month

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Marketing

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Acccess

Through the online catalog At all Service points With carrying case and all the

accoutrements After signing waiver explaining cost

implications if lost or damaged Circulation period of 2 weeks

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How we circulate

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Considering offering Sony e readers Investigating use of iPads for e reading Investigating OverDrive offerings for

academic libraries What do you need and want?

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What’s next for ereaders?

Historical materials Current materials Duke Univ Press books, Oxford online,

Cambridge histories Sage reference materials Wiser’s Chinese e books Springer e book collections

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What e books have we bought

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Biomedicine and Life Sciences Collection Engineering Collection Math and Statistics Collection Earth and Environmental Sciences

Collection Chemistry and Materials Science Collection Computer Sciences Collection Physics and Astronomy Collection

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Springer e book collections

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E book platforms and publishers supported

by the libraries

E Book Library (ebl)

Cambridge, Oxford ABC-CLIO Sage

Ebrary netLibrary Elsevier Wiley Springer

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Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues by William Ferris, published by UNC Press

The Elements by Theodore Gray and Nick Mann, published by Black Dog & Leventual Publishers

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Enhanced e books

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Send an email to ereaders@duke.edu

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For more information

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Sara Seten Berghausen, Librarian for Literature and Theater Studies

Nancy Gibbs, Head of Acquisitions Aisha Harvey, Head of Collection

Development Danette Pachtner, Librarian for Film, Video

and Digital Media

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Participants today: