eBooks on Demand: creating digital collections on users’ request

Õnne Mets, National Library of Estonia

Outline

What’s EOD about? Users and their needs Visible outcomes for end-users

About EOD

Digital document delivery service since 2007 – until… Books Public domain High quality digitisation and OCR, cover to cover

Culture programme co-funded project 2009 – apr 2014

EOD service

Incorporation into Digital

Library

Library: scans & transfers images

Currently offered by 36 libraries in 12 countries

Since 2007

nearly 9000 finished orders over 5000 enquirers about 1,6 million pages digitised

Users

Over 60%: researchers requiring e-books for professional or scientific use;

about 16%: book collectors, readers from special interest groups (amateur historians, collectors, ethnographers etc)

Customer Survey 2008

Clicks in social media

Top ads (IT, FR, RU) in Facebook:1.Art

2.General add (books from 16-20 century)

3.Sheet music

4.Poetry

5.Fashion

6.Theatre (original texts of plays)

7.Education (old text-books)

8.Law

9.Fiction

Online Market Survey 2007

Outcomes

Full access from digital libraries, repositories

Links to full-text in library catalogues Contributing to the portals, which use the

metadata, including – Europeana– EOD search engine search.books2ebooks.eu

EOD search

28 libraries (out of 36), over 4 million records in 30 languages– eBooks, 23 382– Books, 3 962 356 items, Europeana API

Outcomes 2

Links to full-text in Wikipedia Tweets with the links twitter.com/eod_ebooks

Posts with the links in 5 Facebook pages: English (facebook.com/eod.ebooks), German, Czech, Slovenian, Hungarian

Actions by each library towards their target groups and general public

Thank you!

mets@nlib.ee

17-18 Oct, PragueEOD open meetings, international conference and hackdays on digital libraries and repositorieshttp://eod2013.techlib.cz