Digitization Overview:
Why digitize?Advantages and Disadvantages of electronic journalsAdvantages and disadvantages of print journalsPROS:
AccessEasier to search, saves spaceMeans to preserve/centralize all documents in one virtual "place" instead of across several physical locationsPrint costs too muchCONS:
Format obsolescence and broken linksCopyright issuesLosing the pleasures of browsingCancelling a subscription means losing all archives accessTake aways from this session:
- Digital book subscriptions to aggregated databases gives a great deal more access to titles than print collections for much less money, however, control of the stability of the collection's content is lost.
- Corporations are able to pay higher fees for vendor subscriptions. Corporate libraries pay more for subscriptions than public, non-profit libraries.
- The evolution of E-books has created more questions for collection development.
~ what is appropriate use?
~ do users want this service?
~ what is the future of audio books?
- Fewer students see the value of open-stack, print collections.