Ebook Task Force

The Ebook Task Force was charged by the Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC) to evaluate academic experiences with electronic books; their findings are outlined in the final report below. The task force is no longer active.

See sections below:

• Charge
• Membership
• Reports

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Charge

The charge to the Task Force is as follows:

1. Define operating guidelines and desirable features that will make ebooks most useful for instruction and research at the University of California.
2. Evaluate the ongoing experiences at UC campuses (specifically at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego and their netLibrary experiments).
3. Examine other academic library ebook experiments (at other institutions and other content providers).
4. Identify potential Universitywide or multi-campus strategies that should be pursued or explored further.

Membership

Lucia Snowhill, Chair and JSC Liaison
Social Sciences Coordinator
UC Santa Barbara
snowhill@library.ucsb.edu

Anna Gold
Head, Science and Engineering Library
UC San Diego
agold@ucsd.edu

Rosalie Lack
Evaluation and Instruction Analyst
California Digital Library
rosalie.lack@ucop.edu

Milt Ternberg
Head Librarian, Business and Economics Library
UC Berkeley
mternber@library.berkeley.edu

Reports

EBook Task Force Final Report  March 2001:

• Executive Summary [PDF]
• Report [PDF]
• Appendix Table of Contents [PDF]
• Appendices A and B: Electronic book standards and digital rights management. [PDF]
• Appendix C: Business models and licensing.  [PDF]
• Appendix D: UC libraries survey.  [PDF]
• Appendix E: Ebook institution survey summary.  [PDF]
• Appendix F: Ideal ebook features.  [PDF]
• Appendix G: Ebook vendor features—comparison of ideal features.  [PDF]