Check It Out with Michael Kelley: How Libraries Preserve E-books

Morrissey recently co-wrote a report on the subject for the Digital
Preservation Coalition (DPC) called “Preserving E-books”
<http://www.dpconline.org/events/details/77-preserving-ebooks?xref=90%3Apreserving-ebooks>with
Amy Kirchhoff, an archive services product manager at Portico, a digital
archive. <http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/about-us> In the
report, Morrissey and Kirchhoff conclude that the burden of ensuring
“long-term, permanent access” to licensed e-books is dangerously
ill-defined, and that the preservation of e-books is in a tenuous state,
rife with ambiguous responsibilities, rights, and questions about cost.

“A key issue is the ownership model for e-books, or, more correctly, the
non-ownership model,” Kirchhoff explains. Because most e-books are licensed
to a library or to an individual reader, and not owned, libraries cannot
ensure the stability of their e-book collection as they have maintained
physical collections over the years. “Publishers can, and have, removed
content, or modified e-book content,” she adds, “and there are few explicit
protocols for propagating such modifications to e-book content.”



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