Yesterday, ALA's TechSource, sponsored a presentation on "The Book as App, ." available from the first link below. For me, the best part was the presenter Nicole Hennig's strong belief that there were multiple roles for librarians involved with book apps, including "book app expert," helping with the discovery and even the production of book apps. This message fits very well with our central theme at the research group for non-traditional publishing. Librarans need to embrase the world of digital publishing beyond the digital versions of mainstream books. There are multiple roles possible within the expert rubric: knowledge of available non-mainstream published books, discovery roles, and even lending roles. We believe a major task for libraries is to figure out how to own and lend non-mainstream digital books. As you may know, several experiments are underway, including Douglas County, Colorado, (second link below) and Califa in California. (third like). Undoubtedly there are others, and we would like to hear about them.
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