Drinking the E-book Kool-Aid in a Large Academic Library

Abstract

At Illinois we are pretty muchworking under every model we can make work, whileignoring providers with models we don’t like, and waiting tosee what opportunity will come around the bend. We buybooks from large and small publishers in “all in” packagesboth solo and consortially; we are setting up a wide varietyof standing orders; we are leasing content on subscriptionmodels; we are picking up one-by-one titles where thatmakes sense; and, like so many others, we also have a patrondriven program.