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Ebooks at Computers in Libraries 2010

Here’s my video presentation for Computers in Libraries 2010! I’m so, so sorry that I couldn’t be there, but the incredible Bobbi Newman graciously agreed to let me participate via video. Please, if you have questions or comments, leave them below. I promise I’ll get back to you! Or contact me directly via email, or on Twitter.

By griffey

Jason Griffey is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at NISO, where he works to identify new areas of the information ecosystem where standards expertise is useful and needed. Prior to joining NISO in 2019, Jason ran his own technology consulting company for libraries, has been both an Affiliate at metaLAB and a Fellow and Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and was an academic librarian in roles ranging from reference and instruction to Head of IT at the University of TN at Chattanooga.

Jason has written extensively on technology and libraries, including multiple books and a series of full-periodical issues on technology topics, most recently AI & Machine Learning in Libraries and Library Spaces and Smart Buildings: Technology, Metrics, and Iterative Design from 2018. His newest book, co-authored with Jeffery Pomerantz, will be published by MIT Press in 2024.

He has spoken internationally on topics such as artificial intelligence & machine learning, the future of technology and libraries, decentralization and the Blockchain, privacy, copyright, and intellectual property. A full list of his publications and presentations can be found on his CV.
He is one of eight winners of the Knight Foundation News Challenge for Libraries for the Measure the Future project (http://measurethefuture.net), an open hardware project designed to provide actionable use metrics for library spaces. He is also the creator and director of The LibraryBox Project (http://librarybox.us), an open source portable digital file distribution system.

Jason can be stalked obsessively online, and spends his free time with his daughter Eliza, reading, obsessing over gadgets, and preparing for the inevitable zombie uprising.

8 replies on “Ebooks at Computers in Libraries 2010”

Do you see any advantage to publishers in making their products available to libraries? Given the opportunity for publishers to re-define their relationship with libraries in a digital environment do you think they would change the rules and exclude libraries?

Do you see any advantage to publishers in making their products available to libraries? Given the opportunity for publishers to re-define their relationship with libraries in a digital environment do you think they would change the rules and exclude libraries?

There are always advantages to the public seeing your products. I think that publishers might need to starting viewing Libraries in the same way that some are starting to view Creative Commons licensed free versions of ebooks…a marketing opportunity. They MIGHT choose not to do this, but I think that's a mistake on their part.

There are always advantages to the public seeing your products. I think that publishers might need to starting viewing Libraries in the same way that some are starting to view Creative Commons licensed free versions of ebooks…a marketing opportunity. They MIGHT choose not to do this, but I think that's a mistake on their part.

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