{"id":224,"date":"2014-04-15T17:36:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T15:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/?p=224"},"modified":"2014-04-15T17:36:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T15:36:59","slug":"elending-landscape-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/2014\/04\/15\/elending-landscape-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Elending landscape report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>ALIA stralia Library and Information Association) has released the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alia.org.au\/sites\/default\/files\/publishing\/ALIA-Elending-Landscape-Report-2014_0.pdf\"><em>Elending Landscape Report 2014,<\/em><\/a> which identifies worldwide public library initiatives to secure ebooks for borrowers. The report\u2014prepared by Brussels-based Civic Agenda\u2014is intended to help identify practical elending solutions for Australian public libraries.<\/p>\n<p>This 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 ALIA website.<\/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>\u00a0With a clever discovery layer<\/li>\n<li>The options of loan or buy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information about the ALIA ebooks and elending project, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alia.org.au\/advocacy-and-campaigns\/advocacy-campaigns\/ebooks-and-elending\">visit our website<\/a> or email <a href=\"mailto:advocacy@alia.org.au\">advocacy@alia.org.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALIA stralia Library and Information Association) has released the Elending Landscape Report 2014, which identifies worldwide public library initiatives to secure ebooks for borrowers. The report\u2014prepared by Brussels-based Civic Agenda\u2014is intended to help identify practical elending solutions for Australian public libraries. This is the latest step in a project, delivered in collaboration with the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/school-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}