Much Ado about Ebooks and DDA

Michael Levine-Clark – Associate Dean for Scholarly Communication and Collections Services, University of Denver Libraries

Wednesday, October 8 at 6pm PST

This event is co-sponsored by the University of Denver ASIS&T Student Chapter.

Participant link (in Collaborate):  http://bit.ly/ASISTCollab

About the Event

The San Jose State University ASIS&T Student Chapter is proud to present our  first in a new series of invited speaker presentations on technology trends in the library world.  This inaugural event will feature Michael Levine-Clark from the University of Denver discussing Ebooks and demand driven acquisitions in academic libraries.

Over the last decade, academic libraries have moved increasingly toward ebooks as the preferred format type for monographs. This has been a somewhat difficult transition, but is one that offers tremendous opportunities. This presentation will outline some of these difficulties, explore opportunities, and describe a future in which ebooks have reached their potential.

Speaker Bio

Michael Levine-Clark is the Associate Dean for Scholarly Communication and Collections Services at the University of Denver Libraries. With colleagues from the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, he founded the open access journal Collaborative Librarianship, and serves as co-editor for scholarly articles. He has been a member or chair of many committees within the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) and the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) and currently serves as Chair of the ALCTS Collection Management Section (CMS). He has also served on a variety of national and international publisher and vendor library advisory boards. He writes and speaks regularly on strategies for improving academic library collection development practices, including the use of e-books in academic libraries, the development of demand-driven acquisition models, and implications of discovery tool implementation.