LASL PRESENTATION
EBOOKS
AND
SCHOOL LIBRARIES
WILL WE BE BOOKLESS?
Patricia Bordelon
Leslie Smith
Central High School
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
QUESTIONS
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What is a library?
Have you lost library book shelf
space? Why?
What percentage of your books are
unused?
Do you use eBooks?
E REFERENCE BOOKS
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World Book Online – 4000 eBooks
Gale Virtual Reference Library
E REFERENCE BOOKS
Louisiana State Library
http://www.state.lib.la.us/
Statewide Databases and eBooks
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Career Library
EBSCO
Gale Literature for Students Online
Newsbank
Scribner Writers Series
Twayne’s Authors Series
Louisiana State Library
E LIBRARY BOOKS – LASL SURVEY
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70
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50
40
LASL
30
20
10
0
Never Use
Rarely Use
Som etim es
Use
FOR PERSONAL READING,
eREADERS
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SONY
KINDLE
NOOK
EBOOKWISE
CPU OR LAPTOP
STUDENT HAS SONY
TEACHER HAS NOOK
SCHOOLS THAT USE eBOOKS
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Forney Independent School District –
Texas
Cienega High School - Arizona
Empire High School – Arizona
Cushing Academy
Cushing Academy
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http://www.cushing.org/news/news.
php?nid=649 – YouTube tour of Fisher-Watkins Library
at Cushing
Opinions at Cushing
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Gisele Zangari, math department chairwoman – “We see
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Some teachers worry students will be less likely to focus
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Liz Vezina, librarian at Cushing for 17 years, said she never
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Alexander Coyle, chairman of history department, is a
the gain as greater than the loss; This is the start of a new era.”
on long works when their devices are constantly interrupting them
with e-mail and instant messages.
imagined working as the director of a library without any books.
She hosts a book club on campus dubbed the Off-Line Readers.
gadget freak who enjoys his Kindle, but… “…how this changes the
dignity of the library, and why we can’t move to increase digital
resources while keeping the books.”
Online catalogs have access to
eBooks.
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Online catalogs without passwords
have eBooks that are accessible by
anyone.
Example: Capstone Interactive
library for easy books that are also
audio with AR levels listed
Physics for Dummies eBook
eTextbooks
Features
Features
STUDENT WITH e TEXTBOOK
INTERESTING OPINION
Professor puts roots in Midwest, law, cyberspace. (California
Western School of Law's Andrea Johnson).
COPYRIGHT 1996 San Diego Business Journal
She's changing way law is taught at Cal Western. An electronic
casebook replaced textbooks in California Western School of Law
Professor Andrea Johnson's telecommunications class last spring. Only
half the class was in the room for lectures - the other half watched
through video conferencing at Cleveland State University.
Johnson discouraged students from going to the library. Instead,
they used the Internet and communicated via E-mail as the students
acted as legal counsel for various parties in negotiating a
telecommunications agreement for a municipality.
http://find.galegroup.com
HOW TO PROMOTE eBOOKS
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Put links on web site like Kickapoo High School,
Missouri
http://sps.k12.mo.us/khs/library_resources.htm
#reviews
Do a school survey to see what students have ereaders and laptops
Help students download an eBook
Talk to administrators about advantages of
eTextbooks
Put flyers around school promoting eBook usage
Play video of student showing eBook usage
eBook Collection Development
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Ginnie Genovese, librarian
Cienega High School Vail, Arizona
Started with required English literature
Often used subject areas – reference and non-fiction
Popular fiction
Reference books do not check out – can be viewed and
then “replaced” when finished
MOSTLY FREE eBOOKS
• Check
your local public library
•Check other school libraries
•ManyBooks.net
•http://www.ebooksonus.com
•http://www.audiobooksforfree.com
•http://www.booksshouldbefreee.com
• Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org
• Classics http://www.readprint.com/
• University of Virginia
http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/digitalcuration/etext.html
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Classic Authors/Great Literature http://www.classicauthors.net/
More Mostly Free eBooks
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Fiction Works & Criticism
http://fiction.eserver.org/
Bartleby http://www.bartleby.com/
Banned Books
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/bannedbooks.html
UK By Category http://www.free-book.co.uk/
Classic Books
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/bannedbooks.html
Online Book page
http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
(good for English research papers)
Texts, Classics, Criticisms & Quotes! This site has
it all! http://www.refdesk.com/factelec.html
Advantages of eBooks
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Cheaper
Lightweight
Remote purchase
Accessibility
No loss or damage
Can make notes
Added features such as embedded videos
Can be updated quickly
Students are more engaged
Web links
Disadvantages of eBooks
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Limited number
No universal format
Destiny catalog cannot check in early
Lack of portability
Usually need internet access
More difficult to navigate between
pages
eReader device must always be
updated.
FUTURE OF eBooks
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com and
Kindle
interviewed by Daniel Lyons, Newsweek
December 28/January 4/ 2010
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
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Digitization of text is inevitable.
Yes ___ No ___
School Libraries will become bookless.
Yes ___ No ___
If yes, when? ______
Libraries will cease to be.
Yes ___ No ___
I will use eBooks in the next school year.
Yes ___ No ___