The American Library Association has launched a website, Ebooks and Digital Content, that provides links to resources on all aspects of e-content in libraries. The website, part of the Transforming Libraries initiative, supports the work of the ALA Digital Content and Libraries Working Group.
“The Transforming Libraries website was created to support the immediate and ongoing demands put on libraries in a digital environment that continues to expand at warp speed,” said ALA Executive Director Keith Michael Fiels. “The new site offers a robust collection of resources that address the diverse digital content issues with which we currently wrestle, and will continue to grow and evolve into the authoritative resource for information on all aspects of the digital revolution. This will include research, tutorials, networking, and other resources for libraries of all types.”
The site also includes links to topic-specific ALA resources, blogs, business models, copyright and legal issues, data about digital content users, and sales and pricing models.
“The new website reflects the contributions of the Digital Content and Libraries Working Group, which has been able to address the many digital content opportunities and issues at the highest level and from both a policy and practical perspective,” said Kathy Rosa, director of the Office for Research and Statistics, the ALA unit responsible for updating and maintaining the site. “In an environment that changes on a daily basis, the contributions of the working group are invaluable to the building of a dynamic resource.”
Feedback from the field is welcomed. Comments and suggestions for additional resource links may be sent to ors@ala.org.