Over the last two years attendees of the Charleston Conference have been hearing about The Charlotte Initiative for Permanent Acquisition of E-books by Academic Libraries, a Andrew W. Mellon funded research grant to study the current state of e-books in the academic market. At the heart of the project are three core principles proposed for e-book licenses:

• Provision of irrevocable perpetual access and archival rights.
• Allowance for unlimited simultaneous users.
• Freedom from any Digital Rights Management (DRM), including (but not limited to) use of proprietary formats, restricted access to content, or time-limited access terms. 

The last two years have brought many changes to the ever-evolving academic e-book market and now that the project is coming to a close, participants of the grant would like to share their findings and help continue the conversations around the e-books.

To this end, we offer a free symposium to Charleston Conference attendees. The symposium will focus on possible solutions, including evolving business models and publisher feedback to the principles and will present highlights from the four research team findings.

Please join us:

• When: Monday, November 6th 1:00 – 4:00pm
• Where: Courtyard Marriot, Grand Cypress Ballroom 

Registration for this event is outside of the general Charleston Conference registration so please register here. (We have filled 75 percent of our capacity, so please register soon if you plan to participate.) 

On behalf of the Charlotte Initiative Project Team, we look forward to seeing you there! The schedule is now posted. For more information about the project, including several white papers, please visit our website

http://charlotteinitiative.uncc.edu/

These speakers will address our key topics:

Business Models:

• October Ivins, Ivins eContent Solutions
• John Sherer, UNC Press
• Michael Zeoli, GOBI Library Solutions

Licensing Principles:

• Theresa Liedtka, University of Tennessee- Chattanooga
• Rebecca Seger, Oxford University Press

Course Use:

• Liz Siler, UNC Charlotte
• Kelly Denzer, Davidson College

Platforms and Preservation:

• Kate Davis, Scholar’s Portal/OCUL

Usability:

• Alison Bradley, Davidson College

(Ms.) October Ivins, MLS

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