Comments on: Replacing ILL with temporary leases of ebooks

By: Vanessa Elizebeth

Vanessa Elizebeth — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:40:34 +0000

This could save money and time, getting that book to the student instantly.

By: Artists’ books: emphasizing the physical book in an era of digital collections | OUPblog

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:38:39 +0000

[...] There are some terrific resources for learning more about artists’ books. Vamp & Tramp Booksellers — besides having a wonderful name and being run by wonderful people — has a great website that makes it easy to get a sense of the books they carry. Joshua Heller Rare Books and Priscilla Juvelis have great selections as well. And the Guild of Book Workers maintains a useful list of Book Arts Links. Michael Levine-Clark is the Associate Dean for Scholarly Communication and Collections Services at the University of Denver’s Penrose Library. He is co-editor of the journal Collaborative Librarianship, co-editor of The ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science, 4th edition, and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, 4th edition. He has been a member or chair of many committees within library organizations, and has 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 and the development of demand-driven acquisition (DDA) models. Read his previous blog posts: “An academic librarian without a library” and “Replacing ILL with temporary leases of ebooks.” [...]

By: Curiouser and Curiouser: What caught our eyes online this week | Chasing Reference

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:12:37 +0000

[...] Michale Levine-Clark advocates for libraries to replace interlibrary loan with temporary ebook leases. [...]

By: ATG Article of the Week: Replacing ILL with temporary leases of ebooks | Against-the-Grain.com

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 03:52:14 +0000

[...] Replacing ILL with temporary leases of ebooks is a blog post by Michael Levine-Clark pointing to the inefficiencies of ILL in providing both print and ebooks and saying that “librarians need to stop trying to recreate ILL for e-books. Instead, we should work with publishers to develop a model to lease e-books temporarily.” As essential as interlibrary loan has been to scholars and students over the years, Mr. Levine-Clark insists that ” it doesn’t make much sense in a world of digital collections.” He outlines the typical ILL process for both ebooks and print books and while admitting that there are “fewer steps in the ebook process” he claims that both “are too time consuming and expensive.” Instead he makes the argument that librarians should spend their energy working with publishers “to develop a model to lease e-books temporarily” and offers a simple three step process that he claims “could save money and time, getting that book to the student instantly.” [...]

By: Licensed to ILL | Rough Type

Licensed to ILL | Rough Type — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:17:00 +0000

[...] of Denver librarian Michael Levine-Clark argues that libraries should scrap their interlibrary loan (ILL) services and loan out ebooks instead. [...]

By: The Lazy Librarian

The Lazy Librarian — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 02:23:04 +0000

[...] Replacing ILL with Temporary Releases of ebooks July 16, 2012 Oxford University Press [...]

By: Jim Yates

Jim Yates — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:08:52 +0000

You have correctly identified a very broken ILL. The complete solution is available. Do you want to be the first to take advantage of this solution which does not interfere any other system that may be in operation and covers everything the library has for use?
You are one of the few who seem to care about ILL. Please establish a conversation with me and visit the website, thedce.com. Jim