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Attendees
Janey Chao, Lisa Ellis, Stephen Francoeur, Harold Gee, Joseph Hartnett, Jin Ma, Rita Ormsby, Michael Waldman, Kevin Wolff

Discussion
We had a wide-ranging discussion of ebooks and ebook readers:

• HarperCollins limiting ebook checkouts on titles in OverDrive to 26 times
• Video by public librarians identifying HarperCollins print titles that have circulated
  HarperCollins 26+ checkouts

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• criteria we have in mind when we are considering adding an ebook to the library collection:
  • # of simultaneous users
  • is it a license  or a purchase (with hosting fees)
• the kinds of titles where an ebook might make sense:
  • reference books
  • heavily circulated titles (such as Malcolm X’s autobiography)
  • frequently stolen or lost titles
  • technical books
  • manuals and handbooks
  • test prep books
  • books on hot button topics
  • poetry and short story collections
  • literature anthologies
• Sarah Glassmeyer’s blog post (“HCOD, eBook User Bill of Rights and Math“) about whether a boycott of Harper would have any noticeable affect
• ebrary is working on a service that would let users download titles
• Arthur’s blog post about e textbooks
• Flatworld Knowledge
• another CIS class will use the Kindles this spring
• putting public domain works used in the Great Works class on a reader