[Eril-l] Temporary e-book access for distance-learning mode during the COVID-19 outbreak.

[Melissa Belvadi]

If anyone is considering their first DDA, I highly recommend talking with
Gobi (now part of EBSCO but DDA is not restricted to EBSCO platform),
because you will have much more granular control over the content of the
DDA program than with any other DDA, including the ability to limit to
academic books according to Gobi's manually-curated categories.  Proquest
and EBSCO DDA programs directly don't give anywhere near that control over
the type of content, mostly just subject and publisher.

Melissa Belvadi
Collections Librarian
University of Prince Edward Island
mbelvadi at upei.ca  902-566-0581
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 2:40 PM Nikki DeMoville <ndemovil at calpoly.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Diane,
>
> Two suggestions for humanities/social sciences ebooks:  ACLS Humanities
> E-books <https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about-us/>, which is very
> inexpensive, and JSTOR ebooks, where the best approach might be an
> evidence-based program.
>
> Fiction is too broad for me to guess at, but I'd see what EBSCO can do for
> you in the way of a DDA program, perhaps with short-term loans.
>
> You may also want to look at a DDA with ProQuest for comparison.  They are
> more academic in orientation but have a very broad selection.
>
> If you are a member of RapidILL, they do handle book chapter requests,
> which may be useful as well.
>
> Good luck!
>
> --
> *Nikki DeMoville* *(she/her/hers)*
> Coordinator - Electronic Resources, Acquisitions, and Resource Sharing
> Robert E. Kennedy Library
> California Polytechnic State University
> San Luis Obispo, California
>
> Direct 805-756-5780
> Fax 805-756-1415
> ndemovil at calpoly.edu
>
> On 3/11/2020 9:53 AM, Diane Westerfield wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I wanted to broach the subject of campuses closing because of COVID-19
> concerns, and how libraries are going to support distance learning.
>
>
>
> My institution is a small residential liberal arts college. Our patrons
> have a preference for print books, at least for reading in depth. We are
> not really set up for unplanned distance learning, but here we are.
> https://www.coloradocollege.edu/other/coronavirus/
>
>
>
> So my question is, how can we fill the gap for a month or three for books?
> We do have a lot of ebooks, but I can’t think of anything we have for
> modern literature/fiction (the only fiction ebooks are in special
> historical sets like Eighteenth Century Collections Online and Early
> English Books Online). We’re somewhat light on humanities, compared to all
> the science and social science e-books we get from Springer and Elsevier.
> Are there vendors who can serve fiction ebooks in an EZ Proxy/single-sign
> on environment? Who is good for humanities e-books?
>
>
>
> On a side note - we have a few Project Gutenberg titles in our catalog.
> I’ve just asked our lead cataloger if we can update the MARC records; at
> least we can have out-of-copyright full text works linked from our catalog.
> This would flesh out the 1800s and early 1900s literature somewhat. We can
> also direct patrons to Google Books and Internet Archives.
>
>
>
> On another note: There may be an increase in requests for book chapters to
> be scanned so that faculty can post readings to Canvas. As we are heavily
> reliant on student workers for Circulation, ILL, and book shelving, there
> may have to be a reshuffling of library staff/librarians to handle some of
> this work.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Diane Westerfield, Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian
>
> Colorado College, Tutt Library
>
> diane.westerfield at coloradocollege.edu
>
> (719) 389-6661
>
>
>
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