Content tagged Ebooks
Ordered by publication date from most to less recent.
(These results include any available translations of the original English documents.)
- Simplify, Unify, Diversify: an Interview with Jessica Want, New York Public Library
Alongside growing concern in the United States and Canada about the conditions imposed on libraries looking to lend eBooks, there are also efforts to reduce dependency on third party distributors...
News - 16 July 2019
Tags: Access to information, Ebooks, elending, eLending for Libraries, United States of America, Interview, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- eLending & eBook update - February 2018
E-Reolen – the Danish, national e-lending platform - Nordic library meeting in Copenhagen Ppt with information on the business model, lending models, prices, numbers, among other...
Informational Page - 4 February 2019
- eLending & eBook update - December 2017
Digital Publishers Find Shared Purpose at W3C Publishing Summit – 13.11.2017 The article comments on the discussions that took place during the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C...
Informational Page - 4 February 2019
- New IFLA Publication: Trade eBooks in Libraries: The Changing Landscape
Just off the press in the IFLA Publications Series… Read all about it: Trade eBooks in Libraries: The Changing Landscape
News - 21 December 2016
Tags: Digital publishing, Digital Rights Management, Ebooks, eLending for Libraries, EPUB, Public Lending Rght, Studies
- Trade eBooks in Libraries: The Changing Landscape
With the advent of downloadable retail eBooks marketed to individual consumers, for the first time in their history libraries encountered an otherwise commercially available text format they were...
Publication - 16 December 2016
Tags: Digital publishing, Digital Rights Management, Ebooks, eLending for Libraries, EPUB, Public Lending Rght, Studies
- eLending & eBook update - November 2016
With the Court of Justice of the European Union’s eBook judgement, it is a good time for a round up of eBook and eLending news. The below also contains updates on the Simon and...
Informational Page - 17 November 2016
- eLending & eBook update - April 2016
Here's a few stories relating to e-books and lending that may be of interest. An American Libraries Magazine piece on e-Books, reporting from a PLA session on the subject. This notes...
Informational Page - 2 August 2016
Tags: Advocacy, Ebooks, elending
- eLending & eBook update - May 2016
You may be interested in a series of recent stories on eBooks and eLending, if you haven’t yet come across them already. There's a couple of Dutch controversies going on, a discussion on...
Informational Page - 2 August 2016
Tags: Advocacy, Ebooks, elending
- eLending & eBook update - June 2016
The main eLending news is of course the Opinion from the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union that e-Lending (under a one copy one user) should be covered by the Rental...
Informational Page - 2 August 2016
Tags: Advocacy, Ebooks, elending
- eLending & eBook update - July 2016
A short eLending and eBooks update from the last few weeks, ahead of WLIC. This includes a couple of stories about preparations in the Netherlands for the upcoming CJEU judgement on eLending, as...
Informational Page - 1 August 2016
- eBooks – a Step Forward
With eBooks becoming an ever more normal way of reading, it is high time that the law caught up with reality. Yet libraries frequently struggle to obtain the eBooks their users want. And...
News - 16 June 2016
Tags: Ebooks, elending, Public Libraries, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Public Libraries at the Crossroads
Public library services around the world have reached the cross-roads. Collection formats and community needs continue to evolve at a rapid pace. Technology plays a major role providing people...
News - 27 April 2015
Tags: Conferences, Ebooks, eResources, Satellite, South Africa, South Africa, Public Libraries
- IFLA 2014 eLending Background Paper
Introduction The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) released the eLending Background Paper in 2012 followed by a commissioned think piece and the...
Publication - 30 July 2014
Tags: Ebooks, elending, eLending for Libraries, Publications
- IFLA ILP: Project 3: Access to Digital Content/e-Lending
Description Digital lending, including the lending of eBooks and other digital materials, is a major issue for all types of libraries. Increased consumer demand for eReaders, and a growing...
Informational Page - 12 May 2014
Tags: Advocacy, ALP (Action for Development through Libraries Programme), Ebooks, IFLA International Leaders Programme, leadership, LDP (Library Development Programme)
- IFLA ILP: Project 3: Access to Digital Content
Year 1 Project Report, 2013 IFLA International Leaders Programme Group 3 Project Team Members: Sarah Kaddu, Uganda Margaret Allen, Australia Counsellors: Jacinta Were,...
Informational Page - 12 May 2014
Tags: Advocacy, ALP (Action for Development through Libraries Programme), Ebooks, IFLA International Leaders Programme, leadership, LDP (Library Development Programme)
- E-books in libraries
Presented in collaboration with MetLib, Management of Library Associations, and Copyright and Legal Matters Sections Tentative Program Morning Session – E-books in...
News - 4 April 2013
Tags: Advocacy, Ebooks, Licensing, Policy, Singapore, world cafe
- Reflections from the Leipzig Bookfair
Gerald Leitner, member of the IFLA Governing Board and the ELending Working Group, spoke at the Leipzig Bookfair about the challenges faced by libraries with regards to EBooks. He...
News - 21 March 2013
Tags: Advocacy, Copyright, Ebooks, Germany
- IFLA and CILIP Discuss the Challenges of eBooks in Libraries - Presentations now available
On the 21st of February 2013 the IFLA Management of Library Associations (MLAS) Committee and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) invited participants to...
News - 19 March 2013
Tags: CILIP, Ebooks, MLAS, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland