Crash Course in eBooks

McGraw, Michele and Gail Mueller Schultz. Crash Course in eBooks. Libraries Unlimited, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-61069-862-7

Description
This book covers the many issues surrounding eBooks in circulating libraries including technology, acquisition, and training. You'll learn how to launch a program, what to buy, how to let your public know you've added eBooks to your collection, and how to circulate the materials. The guide will also help you with decisions like vendor selection, how many eBooks to purchase, which delivery platforms to employ, how best to offer access, and licensing agreements.

Table of Contents 

1. Why should you offer ebooks? 
2. How did we get here?
3. How do libraries get ebooks?
4. Implementing a vendor-based ebook collection
5. Connecting patrons to your ebooks collection
6. Evaluating the success of your new collection
7. Increasing and expanding your ebook collection
8. Other considerations
9. Conclusion

eBooks for Elementary School

Cavanaugh, T. W. (2015). eBooks for Elementary School. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited. ISBN: 978-1-61069-849-8

Publisher's Description
eBooks offer students as well as teachers, school and public librarians, and parents tremendous possibilities. This book explains how to expand and enhance the reading experience through the use of technology.

Today, eBooks are everywhere, and the use of digital learning materials is beginning to supplant traditional printed materials. As the world shifts to digital books, both teachers and students need to be comfortable and effective using materials in this format. This book helps you to apply eBook materials to existing curricula to create interactive educational activities and have access to more materials to support reading instruction, literacy, standards, and reading in the content areas.

Author Terence W. Cavanaugh, an expert on teaching with technology, describes numerous strategies for integrating eBooks into reading instruction and remediation for students in preschool through grade 6. He covers the hardware and software used, the wide range of formats available, and research conducted on the use of eBooks with students as well as how to access free resources such as digital libraries and special collections that make eBooks available for schools. The book also contains a chapter dedicated to using eBooks to help emergent or struggling readers.
 
Features

• Explains how any teacher or librarian can get started on the integration process of using eBooks as reading tools

• Covers all the key critical information regarding eBook use: the different formats of eBooks and readers as well as how to collect and hold eBook files

• Provides information on where teachers can get thousands of free digital books for their students to use, including text, audio, and video books

Developing Collections to Empower Learners

Kimmel, Sue C. Developing Collections to Empower Learners. Chicago: American Association of School Librarians, 2014.
ISBN: 978-0-8389-8725-5

Publisher's Description
[This book] examines collection development in the context of today’s shifts toward digital resources while emphasizing the foundational beliefs of the school library profession. Writer Sue Kimmel includes practical advice about needs assessment, planning, selection, acquisitions, evaluation, and continuous improvement for collections to support 21st-century standards. Questions are raised about shifting roles of the school librarian and the place of the school library. What should school libraries collect and how can we support the creation and dissemination of knowledge in our communities? Particular emphasis is given to questions about access, equity, and learning in order to ensure that all students will be effective consumers and producers of information and ideas heading into the 22nd-century.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1. Knowing Your Customers
Chapter 2. Assessing and Approaching Power Brokers
Chapter 3. Building Strong Partnerships
Chapter 4. Consensus through Managing Complexity
Chapter 5. Confidence
Chapter 6. Coaching
Chapter 7. Humor
Chapter 8. Authenticity
Chapter 9. Preparedness
CONCLUSION and ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Works Cited
    Appendix A. Further Reading
    Appendix B. Checklist for a Written Collection Development Plan
    Appendix C. Recommended Selection Aids
    Appendix D: Publications from AASL
    Appendix E: AASL Position Statement on Quantitative Standards
    Appendix F: Extended Mission Statement from
                       Empowering Learners
    Appendix G: Learning4Life
    Appendix H: Index
    Appendix I: Tables and Figures

Ebooks and the School Library Program

Leverkus, Cathy, and Shannon Acedo. Ebooks and the School Library Program: A Practical Guide for the School Librarian. Chicago: American Association of School Librarians, 2013.
ISBN: 978-0-8389-8672-1

Publisher's Description

Whether you have an interest in starting an ebook collection for your school library program or are working on enhancing an ebook collection you’ve already established, this handbook is for you. The world of ebooks is both vast and intricate. Exploring the many articles concerning ebook publication, vendors, devices, and copyright laws can be overwhelming. The writers of Ebooks and the School Library Program have organized their learning to share with their peers from several years of building ebook collections for their individual school library programs. This guide will help familiarize school librarians with ebooks and facilitate decision-making about their ebook collections in a rapidly changing landscape.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1: What is an Ebook?

Chapter 2: Sources of Ebooks

Chapter 3: Why Purchase Ebooks?

Chapter 4: Ebooks and Self-Publishing

Chapter 5: Ebook Devices

Chapter 6: Device Distribution and Technological Factors

Chapter 7: Ebook Circulation/Access

Chapter 8: Developing an Ebook Collection

Chapter 9: Ebook Acquisition

Chapter 10: One-Time ‘Purchase’ or Annual Subscription?

Chapter 11: Cataloging Ebooks

Chapter 12: Budgetary Factors

Chapter 13: Librarian Support Groups—Learning From Peers

Chapter 14: Legal and Ethical Considerations

Chapter 15: Fast-Changing Landscape

Chapter 16: Musings: Larger Philosophical Questions, Future Challenges, Concerns, and Developments

Chapter 17: Conclusion

WORKS CITED

Appendix A: Resources

Appendix B: Publications from AASL

Appendix C: AASL Position Statement on Digital Content and E-books in School Library Collections

Appendix D: Glossary

Appendix E: Index

Appendix F: Tables & Figures

Building the Gigabit City (eBook)

Settles, C. (2013). Building the Gigabit City: A Planning Guide. Smashwords, Inc.

This is an online eBook. Click here to read now!

 
Superfast broadband significantly boosts local economies, transforms education, improves healthcare delivery and increases local government efficiency. Building the Gigabit City helps you ask the right questions so you can do the same for your constituents.

Pulling valuable lessons from many of the 340 communities with successful broadband networks, this multimedia guide overflows with practical advice. Building the Gigabit City, produced in partnership with Gigabit Squared, helps rural and urban communities:

1) ignore the hype surrounding gigabit networks;
2) understand what super-fast access can and cannot do for your community;
3) conduct effective needs assessment; and
4) plan effective broadband strategy.

Success breeds success. Community leaders and project teams running successful broadband projects inform and motivate readers with insights on planning, funding, building, operating and marketing highspeed Internet access and services. U.S. communities from coast to coast are interviewed.

From a multimedia array of interviews, panel discussions, keynote presentations and first-hand experience, readers pick up valuable insights on:

* nine possible community broadband business models;
* six options for funding community broadband;
* building consensus among stakeholders;
* cultivating effective partnerships;
* overcoming or proactively addressing political adversity; and
* creating winning broadband strategies.

Building the Gigabit City is broadband industry analyst Craig Settles’ first e-book. For over 25 years his workshops and consulting services have helped organizations worldwide use technology to cut costs, improve operations and increase revenue. Numerous books, blog and in-depth analysis reports have established Mr. Settles as a prominent thought leader on executing broadband strategies. He currently hosts Gigabit Nation, a weekly Internet radio talk show. (book description)