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11. What are your policies for ordering e-books for e-reserves? Are you aware of any problems in this area? The
- The responses for this question were varied:
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- Different libraries needed to quickly adopt certain sets of procedures to answer a recent demand for e-reserve titles and often chose to go with a familiar non-reserve solution in order to provide access for a few rushed items.
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- General need for standardization and a more comprehensive solution for the problem of multi-usage and "turnaways".
- Currently libraries use different methods to evaluate and solve this concern:
- some order a multi-usage copy to begin with
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- others rely on the vendor or on their own count to assess when they should buy another copy for e-reserve.
12. Are you acquiring e-books on a subscription basis or ownership basis or both? All
- All libraries interviewed are acquiring e-books on a subscription and ownership basis, with a preference for ownership.
13. Do you have concerns regarding the difference between perpetual access vs. perpetual ownership? Do you have a plan in place for what to do if you have perpetual ownership without perpetual access (local storage)? Libraries are aware of the issue but have not actively worked to have a plan in place in case they would have to locally load content. Some hope that Portico or a consortial archiving answer will alleviate the issue. Some receive copies of the content on CDs which they store but have no plan for locally loading and serving the content. It is not an urgent enough issue to have impacted buying decisions at this point. They are content to have either perpetual access OR perpetual ownership specified in the license without having a plan for what to do if the downside of perpetual ownership without perpetual access already in place.
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