[OPLINLIST] Ohio eBook Project open enrollment

[Nicole Merriman]

THE OHIO EBOOK PROJECT IS NOW OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT 

Are you interested in providing an affordable digital materials
collection to your patrons? If yes, contact Nicole Merriman at the State
Library of Ohio, oep at library.ohio.gov, by Tuesday, June 15, 2010 to
inquire about enrolling in the Ohio eBook Project (OEP).

The Ohio eBook Project (OEP) is a consortium of 40 libraries that have
access to 12,000 copies of over 8,000 titles. This consortium allows
Ohio libraries to provide digital materials to their patrons at a
considerable savings because the State Library pays the maintenance
fees. All member libraries add to and share the digital materials
collection. Visit the OEP web site at http://ohdbks.lib.overdrive.com to
view the collection. The vendor for this consortium is OverDrive, Inc.,
an Ohio company providing downloadable digital materials to libraries
throughout the world.   

In order to join the Ohio eBook Project, your library needs to: 
* Pay a $1,500.00 one time set-up fee to OverDrive, Inc.
* Be SIP/SIP2, Patron API, or RPA complaint.  Talk to your ILS vendor
about upgrading and ask if any costs are involved. EZproxy is another
option we may be able to work with.
* In the first year of membership, pledge 1% of your print book,
monograph and AV collection annual budget to building the Ohio eBook
Project's collection; there is currently a $500 per year minimum. In
subsequent membership years, your pledge amount will drop to .5% of this
portion of your budget or $500, whichever is more.
* For each title that your library purchases that is new to the OEP,
there is also a $1.50 fee for the accompanying MARC record.  
* Agree that all digital materials will be added to the shared OEP
collection. Agree that any books your library purchases for the OEP
collection will remain in the OEP collection in the event that your
library leaves the OEP.

The eBooks are in Adobe EPUB, Adobe PDF and Mobipocket Reader formats.
Most audio books and music are in Windows Media Audio (WMA) format, and
video is in Windows Media Video (WMV) format. In addition, the
consortium has a growing collection of MP3 audio books. Patrons can
download the Ohio eBook Project materials from computers in their homes
or offices. At an additional cost, your patrons can download on a
computer in the library.    

More information is available at
http://www.library.ohio.gov/IT/ebook/FAQ. If you are interested in
joining the Ohio eBook Project for a July 31, 2010 launch, please
contact Nicole Merriman by Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at
oep at library.ohio.gov, or call (800)686-1532. 

Cordially,

Nicole Merriman
Library Consultant
State Library of Ohio
274 East First Avenue
Columbus, OH 43201
Phone: 614.995.4117
nmerriman at library.ohio.gov 
http://www.library.ohio.gov