Digital Library Solutions

Bringing your library into the future

Plan of Action

• Initiation of face-to-face meeting to assess patron and collection needs

• Presentation of steps to shaping a digital library

• Working through the steps• Accumulation and acquisition of digital

books, digital readers, and additional PC’s

• Restructuring of library system catalog

Reasons to go digital

• Portability—books on PDA or DVD allow lighter travel

• Preserving books/data in digital collections brings longer lasting life to materials

• Digital books are faster to produce; keeps patrons up to date on current issues/events

• Longer life span than paper-based books

Benefits of eBooks

• Your students will have 24 hour access to materials•Use of eBooks, eReaders, and computers will aide your district in meeting District Technology Curriculum Standards•A variety of tools are available to assist struggling readers•Thousands of available titles

Go digital; Go green

• Digital books reduce carbon footprint– 125 million trees leveled for paper-based

books in 2008

• Digital books replace 23 print books a year

• Use of digital books reduces energy draining computer usage.

• Purchase of 3-4 digital books/year produces less CO2 than the same number of print books.

Technology upgrades

• Amazon Kindle eReader– Text to speech capability– Excellent tool, but beware of DRM issues

• Sony Reader– Capability to download to reader or

computer

Technology upgrades (con’t)

• Add 7 desktop workstations – 17” monitors for ease of viewing text– Headphones to listen to audiobooks– Speaker bar for whole class lessons– 2 GB RAM for quick search and

download response time

Accommodating users

• Available tools for accessibility:– Text interaction–Multiple languages– Adjustable display– Text to speech capability– eBooks are lightweight

Do you want to know more?

• Digital libraries:– http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/DL95/papers/n

uernberg/nuernberg.html

• eBooks:– http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/arti

cle/CA6660883.html

• Accessibility:– http://www.drscavanaugh.org/ebooks/ac

commodations.htm

Ready to go digital?

• DLS is there for you every step of the way. Contact:– Jamie, your sales consultant– Linda, your website liaison– Lindy, your account manager– Doug, your accessibility specialist

Thank you for your time!