2022-10-20 Econtent meeting notes

List of contracts

• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iSxSba3iuMTjHq9G1P0hp3KXglxIdCgedpjf7D0vZzo/edit?usp=sharing

• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IMH4whVGCLsloLPQx3jlXtaZdYMaLw5no1BUsEStXe4/edit?usp=sharing

Data Axle

• Verify:

  • Latest contract link

  • Vendor contact name, email address, and phone number

  • Transition date

• Those that have this: Louisville; Lafayette; Loveland; Boulder; Longmont

  • Broomfield does not

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EBSCO Consumer Reports

• Verify:

  • Latest contract link

  • Vendor contact name, email address, and phone number

  • Transition date

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EBSCO Novelist

• Verify:

  • Latest contract link

  • Vendor contact name, email address, and phone number

  • Transition date

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New York Times

• Verify:

  • Latest contract link: Gina will populate spreadsheet

  • Vendor contact name, email address, and phone number

  • Transition date: September 21, 2023

Washington Post

• Verify:

  • Transition date: August 2023

  • Statistics are emailed to the libraries

Overdrive

• All six libraries continuing with the Front Range Downloadable Library

• Pika - Overdrive API connection already in place; no changes required

Others vendors we are missing?

• WebDewey

• IUG - held centrally by Flatirons

Demo day planning

Some Marmot libraries already have some of the eContent resources held individually by the six FLC libraries, so there is an immediate opportunity for looking at cost sharing

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LYFq7V-tv-6aNcOL64UXwSNdj5qYFtPhBk-2NeSIIPs/edit?usp=sharing

Other considerations

• Include Gina, Esther, Jamie, Wendy in stats group

• Marmot will put out a call for interest in being part of the stats group

Marmot’s vendor questionnaire survey

• Please review the questionnaire for additional content for discussion at second eContent working group meeting

Sideloading content

• need to devote a working group meeting to managing sideloads

Next meeting

• Scheduled for Dec 1, 2022 at 1pm