ALA Annual Ebook Friday

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The Annual Meeting of the Core Ebooks Interest Group (AKA Ebook Friday) will be on June 27:

 June 27

9:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT

Ebooks Interest Group Meeting

Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 103 B C

 

Here is a tentative agenda.  Please note it might change, but we're getting close to a final version.

9:00: Introduction, Ground Rules

 9:05 - 9:30:  Andrew Albanese: his new site, trends in the digital market, thoughts on advocacy going forward (keynote)

 9:30 - 9:45: The need for action:

  • A recent study of the market by RF Working Group:  Michael Blackwell

  • OverDrive/vendor issues:  Info from Carmi Parker (present virtually) 

 9:45 to 10:00:  Conversation: Where are we? Do we agree these are the issues that need to be addressed

10:00-10:30: Political and other advocacy:

 ULC and CULC: Vicky Varga, Lisa Wells, Angela Goodrich

  • Ebook Study Group: Kyle Courtney and Juliya Zuskina

  • LIbrary Futures:  Jennie Rose Halperin

10:30 - 10:45: Conversation:  thoughts about how to move forward–laws? What is "reasonable"? Withholding funds from bad contracts? 

 10:45- 11:15: New models and publisher opportunities

  • Ownership of digital content and new license models:  Micah May

  • Adam from HarperCollins

  • Jeff from Audible

 11:15 - 11:30: Conversation

  • What questions do you have for the publishers?

  • What would you most like to see?

 11:30 to 11:45: Responses to Book Banning:

  • Books Unbanned:  Amy Mikel

  • Banned Book Club:  Micah May

 11:45 to Noon: Group Discussion

  • Questions presented to generate thoughts

    • What is your library most willing to try to work for change?

We are building in discussion time to have a thoughtful session about moving forward in an area in which unfair license terms limit the scope of library collections. Hope to see you there!

Michael