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Friday, June 19 • 10:45am - 11:15am
Controlled Digital Lending: An eBook Solution When There is no eBook?

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When administrators at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary unveiled plans for a new online-only degree program geared specifically towards students overseas, librarians were faced with the problem of how best to provide access to research and reading materials. eBooks played a large role in the solution, but what about when there is no eBook available for a particular text? Based on a fair use argument, Controlled Digital Lending offers libraries the option to translate print books into eBooks. With Controlled Digital Lending, libraries lend one digital copy to one user at a time for each print copy they take out of circulation. Come and learn about AMBS Library's experiment with Controlled Digital Lending through Internet Archive.
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Brandon Board

Information Services & Online Learning Librarian, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
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Karl Stutzman

Director of Library Services, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
As the library director at a small institution, I am passionate about library collaboration and connections between libraries. I look forward to learning about you and your context and figuring out ways that we can partner, learn, and grow together so that we can advance library (and... Read More →

Friday June 19, 2020 10:45am - 11:15am CDT
Zoom Room 3
  Collection Development, Listen and Learn (30 minutes)

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