http://www.jiscebooksproject.org Hosted by JISC Collections Fri, 21 May 2010 05:04:27 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/events/national-e-textbook-debate/audience-registration-form/comment-page-1#comment-21 Grace Porter’s blog » JISC National etextbook debate - 14 April Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:42:55 +0000 http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/events/national-e-textbook-debate/audience-registration-form#comment-21 [...] http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/events/national-e-textbook-debate/audience-registration-form. The JISC National E-textbook Debate provides a unique opportunity to quiz a panel of experts and to openly debate the future role of the library in the provision of electronic textbooks.JISC’s Executive Secretary, Malcolm Read, will be chairing the event. The panel of experts consists of publishers and librarians. Representing the publishing community we have Tom Davy, CEO of Cengage and Dominic Knight, MD of Palgrave. Representing the library community we have Sue McKnight, Director of Libraries and Knowledge Resources at Nottingham Trent University and Mandy Phillips, Information Resources Manager at Edge Hill University. Each will have their own viewpoint, some arguing that in order to meet expectations and demand the institution/library purchase model must continue and some arguing against the institutional/library purchase model of e-textbooks on the grounds of sustainability and diversity of needs. [...] [...] http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/events/national-e-textbook-debate/audience-registration-form. The JISC National E-textbook Debate provides a unique opportunity to quiz a panel of experts and to openly debate the future role of the library in the provision of electronic textbooks.JISC’s Executive Secretary, Malcolm Read, will be chairing the event. The panel of experts consists of publishers and librarians. Representing the publishing community we have Tom Davy, CEO of Cengage and Dominic Knight, MD of Palgrave. Representing the library community we have Sue McKnight, Director of Libraries and Knowledge Resources at Nottingham Trent University and Mandy Phillips, Information Resources Manager at Edge Hill University. Each will have their own viewpoint, some arguing that in order to meet expectations and demand the institution/library purchase model must continue and some arguing against the institutional/library purchase model of e-textbooks on the grounds of sustainability and diversity of needs. [...]

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