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Check It Out with Michael Kelley: How Libraries Preserve E-books Morrissey recently co-wrote a report on the subject for the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) called “Preserving E-books” <http://www.dpconline.org/events/details/77-preserving-ebooks?xref=90%3Apreserving-ebooks>with Amy Kirchhoff, an archive services product manager at Portico, a digital archive. <http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/about-us> In the report, Morrissey and Kirchhoff conclude that the burden of ensuring “long-term, permanent access” to licensed e-books is dangerously ill-defined, and that the preservation of e-books is in a tenuous state, rife with ambiguous responsibilities, rights, and questions about cost. “A key issue is the ownership model for e-books, or, more correctly, the non-ownership model,” Kirchhoff explains. Because most e-books are licensed to a library or to an individual reader, and not owned, libraries cannot ensure the stability of their e-book collection as they have maintained physical collections over the years. “Publishers can, and have, removed content, or modified e-book content,” she adds, “and there are few explicit protocols for propagating such modifications to e-book content.” http://bit.ly/1oJLRBi Source: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/64271-check-it-out-with-michael-kelley-how-libraries-preserve-e-books.html See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/1oJLRBi+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: https://bitly.com/pages/sidebar To view the list archives go to: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the words UNSUBSCRIBE RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK For any technical queries re JISC please email [log in to unmask] For any content based queries, please email [log in to unmask]