Meeting Minutes for 02/12/2019

OverDrive Advantage Plus Update – Tammy

• All of the members have made their decision on Advantage Plus
• Abbey Deckard is working with those members to either create an Advantage Account for them, or help them setup Advantage Plus.
• No one is able to use their OverDrive consortium accounts to purchase titles.
  • OverDrive consortium accounts can still be used to run reports to get statistics for the previously purchased shared titles, as well as any Advantage Plus Shared statistics and for curation.
• All ordering will now be done using your Advantage accounts.
• Everyone has given me their Advantage Plus share totals.
  • A quarterly report will be created that looks at the amounts for the titles that were shared, compared to the pledges from each library.  
  • This report will be sent to the Directors’ email list.

Flipster EBSCO Magazine Service Demo - Ed Lott & Courtney Nunes (EBSCO)

• Flipster Demo Recording
• Flipster Demo Slides
• Flipster pricing list can be for an individual library, or a group of libraries.  Please contact Ed Lott (elott-at-ebsco.com) to find out more about pricing.

Other Topics

RBdigital Audiobooks – Alysa

• Alysa met with Mark Haley from Recorded Books to discuss their audiobook platform
• Is Marmot still interested in continuing to negotiate these types of contracts?
• Alysa is happy to give a brief overview of the meeting, and wanted to know if everyone wanted to see a demo?
• Action Item: Tammy will speak with Adam to find out what Marmot’s role will be for any future eContent contracts.
• Action Item Update: Adam agrees that Marmot should continue to broker more and better deals for the consortium.
• Alysa found the RBdigital audiobooks model to be different from any other model that we have currently.
  • RBdigital is allowing unlimited access to their entire collection for simultaneous checkouts, except for newly published RBdigital titles for the first year.
  • You would have to buy individual titles the first year.  As soon as that year is up, those titles will automatically go into simultaneous access.
  • This is a combination of what is done with Hoopla and OverDrive.
  • Mark Haley worked up a quote for Marmot and wanted an opportunity to talk to the group.
• Action Item: Alysa will contact Mark Haley to invite him to give a demo at the April 9th ECC meeting.
• There was a complaint about how patrons forget their username and password, and staff does not have access to help them.
• Action Item: Tammy will find out if RBdigital Magazine/Zinio admins have enough privileges to view patron’s usernames/IDs.  If so, a training document will be created helping members know how to access this information.
• Action Item Update: All RBdigital admins have access to view patron usernames/IDs.  Tammy will create a training document to explain how to access this information.

Flipster Conversation

• All the magazines that were currently lost from RBdigital are now available through Flipster.
• Flipster does not make customers sign up for an account, so library staff do not have to worry about patron logins.
• Moving to Flipster would mean the loss of “The Economist” magazine.
• Some members do not want two platforms for magazines.
• Members would not be opposed to multiple platforms, if there were an API catalog integration.
• Action Item: Tammy will find out if the RBdigital API integration is still on the roadmap for Pika.
• Consumer Reports is not exclusive to Flipster and can be purchased through CLiC as a database.
• There is an ongoing lawsuit against EBSCO magazine (Flipster) and CLiC, so should this be part of the conversation when considering a switch to Flipster.
• The RBdigital magazine renewal is not until February 2020, so we can have a conversation later in the year about switching.  If an API was an option, the group may consider having both platforms.

Next meeting is on Tuesday, April 9th at 1 p.m.

Agenda Item: Mark Haley from Recorded Books will be asked to present the RBdigital AudioBooks