KANSAS STATE LIBRARIAN CHALLENGES OVERDRIVE

摘要

Jo Budler, the state librarian of Kansas, with the backing of the state attorney general's office, is planning to terminate the Kansas Digital Library Consortium's contract with ebook vendor OverDrive and is asserting the bold argument that the consortium has purchased, not licensed, its ebook content from OverDrive and, therefore, has the right to transfer the content to a new service provider. Budler said she is in negotiations with other platform providers and that the state consortium will become a beta tester of 3M's new Cloud Library ebook lending service.