No ebook takeover

摘要

As director of a small, stand-alone library that is not part of a cooperative, I have experienced great difficulty in my quest to obtain ebook access for our patrons (Michael Kelley, Francine Fialkoff, Rebecca Miller, and David Rapp, "The Ebook Opportunity," LJ 11/15/11, p. 36-37). OverDrive is out of the question, financially, and we cannot piggyback with any of the local co-ops or consortia. We have reciprocal privileges with our county co-op, but that does not include ebook access. Our only possibility, and this is still not settled, is joining with a library in another part of the state for a financially acceptable inroad to OverDrive.