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)

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

 
Meeting Date: 
Tuesday, 2019, February 12
Documentation Type: 
Meeting Minutes
Committees: 
eResource Committee