RE: Book chapters on Reserve?

["Karen Akins" <Karen_Akins@tamu-commerce.edu>]

Ebook Library (EBL) is set up to do this.  You set up a chapter 
for a chosen amount of time for unlimited use. (Normally each use 
counts against your total uses for the year).  You can only have 
one chapter of a book at a time on reserve.

We haven't had many faculty choose to use this yet, but it is a 
reason we sometimes favor them as a vendor when purchasing 
individual e-books.

Karen Akins
Reference Librarian, Sciences & Collection Development.
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Karen_Akins@tamu-commerce.edu
903-886-5728
Knowledge is a renewable resource


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Hamaker, Charles
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 10:01 AM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Book chapters on Reserve?

I find it incredibly inefficient that generally you can't put an 
e-book chapter on reserve because you can't access the chapters 
in a book that way. Some licenses for e-books while permitting 
"printed course packs" inclusion seem to exclude electronic 
course packs behind secure systems (like blackboard). You have to 
make a physical copy and scan it (the logic of which escapes me) 
for reserves use or course use in a secure network environment. 
Or have an inefficient link to the "whole" book electronically. 
(I'm talking about situations where appropriate fees for 
electronic access have been paid, sometimes even for multiple 
simultaneous user access.) The "format" is driving some ludicrous 
practices.

So let's create an eBook system for academic libraries that make 
it impossible for faculty to do what they do when it comes to 
reserves or course readings, i.e. use chapters as if they were 
articles.

Chuck Hamaker
Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services
Atkins Library
University of North Carolina Charlotte
Charlotte, NC 28223