{"id":469,"date":"2014-04-16T07:43:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T06:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/?p=469"},"modified":"2014-04-15T08:15:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T07:15:01","slug":"e-lending-landscape-report-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/2014\/04\/16\/e-lending-landscape-report-released\/","title":{"rendered":"e-lending Landscape Report Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2014\/04\/ereader.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-470\" alt=\"ereader\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2014\/04\/ereader.jpg\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In December 2013, the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) commissioned Brussels-based Civic Agenda to produce a worldwide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alia.org.au\/sites\/default\/files\/publishing\/ALIA-Elending-Landscape-Report-2014_0.pdf.\">e-lending landscape report<\/a>, identifying public library-led initiatives to secure ebooks for borrowers. The report\u00a0is now available.<\/p>\n<p>This report is the latest step in a project, delivered in collaboration with the National and State Libraries of Australasia (NSLA) and the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL), that has involved think tanks held around Australia; formal discussions with library leaders, including the ALIA ebooks and elending reference group, and the publication of a series of papers on the <a href=\"www.alia.org.au\">ALIA website <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These activities have helped move the conversation with other book industry stakeholders forward, but Australian public libraries continue to experience great difficulty in obtaining ebooks for elending and finding a platform that will meet the desired criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A secure, trusted repository that contains ebooks from the big publishers, as well as from authors direct, and from local publishers<\/li>\n<li>Content procured at a fair price<\/li>\n<li>Providing access to local history content<\/li>\n<li>Library branded<\/li>\n<li>Providing content that can be accessed from all sorts of devices<\/li>\n<li>With a clever discovery layer<\/li>\n<li>The options of loan or buy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This landscape report on elending platform developments internationally is intended to help identify practical solutions for Australian public libraries.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the ALIA ebooks and elending project, please visit our website or email <a href=\"mailto:advocacy@alia.org.au\">advocacy@alia.org.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2013, the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) commissioned Brussels-based Civic Agenda to produce a worldwide e-lending landscape report, identifying public library-led initiatives to secure ebooks for borrowers. The report\u00a0is now available. This report is the latest step in a project, delivered in collaboration with the National and State Libraries of Australasia (NSLA) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":723,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16080,7264],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-australian-library-and-information-association","tag-e-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/723"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}