Change is in the air here in New England. The commuters come pouring into my morning train with jackets zipped and bags in tow. Some of those bags hold the paper books, magazines and newspapers they will read as we wind our way into Boston. Others, an increasing number, are happy to pull out the digital versions of those same materials. Wired for a news podcast from yesterday or holding that flat-screened Kindle or Ipad, they are in the wave, not just on the front edge, of the
electronic books tidal wave.
In my atmospheric inbox today is the task of compiling titles of 2010 books for the ASLI’s Choice Awards that are distributed at the Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society. I’m part of a small cohort who sifts through nominations and independent reviews of titles connected to the fields and subfields of atmospheric sciences. Climate change titles are always heavily represented in the publisher output. We find the best technical, legal, historic or visual book and recognize them, their authors, and publishers. We like to review “title in hand” when possible, but these days, we grapple with “title on screen.”
For what kinds of uses do we prefer the physical version over the digital, and vice versa? Surely digital books ease the commuter load, although toting a stash of books while leaving the public library makes tangible the hope of relaxing by the fire with a good read. Later today I’ll head off into my stacks and emerge with my own stack, after which I’ll examine the prefatory and concluding material, illustrations, content, clarity of writing style and more for each book. But there is a growing number of titles that require Step 2: call up the bib record in the opac of course, but then click on the url and pull up either the entire volume or the selected pdf’ed (a word?!) chapters. I’ll try to gain a sense of the whole through examining the parts, remembering that it’s Springer who deliver those pdf chapters and NetLibrary who doesn’t play well on macs with Firefox. Hopefully the e-book vendor Ebrary will deliver the goods smoothly as will Wiley and Cambridge or others, but it does have the feel of a free-for-all. Except of course, we’ve paid.
Finally there will be that (unfortunately) growing list of books my library didn’t, and won’t purchase. In these times of budget reductions, I don’t have the funds of the past to fill in what I might have missed in the past 12 months. For these, my colleagues, interlibrary loan or the reviews themselves will have to come through. Soon we will derive a short list, and then the winners will live digitally in photos of smiling people, and physically in nice plaques that will fit into your case in the overhead bin.
So as my train and its readers approach North Station, this may be your last chance to nominate a book for our ASLI meeting in Seattle. If you have a favorite in whatever form, speak up— or send the link.
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