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vendor audience member says thank you for finally thinking of libraries as a business. this ain't all fun, people.
2:14 PM Nov 5th
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1. and so ends another panel of mostly men. 2. James Wiser is effing brilliant.
2:12 PM Nov 5th
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reference works like subject encyclopedias have the possibility of being transformative. unfortunately didnt have time to explain more.
2:11 PM Nov 5th
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wakeup call in aggregated reference: research today is harder than it used to be, across markets, regardless of # of eresources
2:09 PM Nov 5th
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we are on the cusp of transformative change. speaker's world is aggregated reference.
2:08 PM Nov 5th
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we're all in this together; we've been planning for crisis w/o realizing it; our crisis is remarkably tame (think healthcare)
2:05 PM Nov 5th
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jrnnl cancellations are the only way to send the message to publishers that their prices are too high. good for stu? no.
2:03 PM Nov 5th
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librarians still don't know our publishers & vendors well enuf. if they lose $ in one sector, they have to make it up in another.
2:01 PM Nov 5th
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@ talking about the economy and what we do and don't know re:economic crisis. he is SO great!
2:00 PM Nov 5th
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first experience really using Ubuntu netbook a very frustrating--often won't connect to wifi, think I lost notes in star office. freezing :(
1:56 PM Nov 5th
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@ what did you say? sorry, I was reading the text on the slides. :-p
1:42 PM Nov 5th
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if there is resistance at your library to user-selected ebooks, you can define list of what's offered. combined model will work.
11:51 AM Nov 5th
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this study still reveals that pre-selected books are used, but when you let users pick them, they're used more.
11:50 AM Nov 5th
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Q:community coll bought ebrary and was impressed with scholarly level of user-selected volumes. (ok that was not a question)
11:50 AM Nov 5th
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there is a lot of usage of these books that are browse-only.
11:48 AM Nov 5th
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therefore, one type did not choose cheaper books. Q:who chose how to count "read online"? A:EBL's system works taht way.
11:48 AM Nov 5th
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Q:did you analyze the cost of the two collection types? A:on average they were about the same at the unit level; avg $84/bk
11:47 AM Nov 5th
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therefore size of coll doesn't matter as long as smallest collection is statistically meaningful (which it is).
11:46 AM Nov 5th
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in general, there are about twice as many pre-selected titles as user-selected, in this study. looked at AVG use.
11:46 AM Nov 5th
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...but are libraries more likely to own an older ebook in print? my question, not Kari's.
11:45 AM Nov 5th
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