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Charge

Identify e-content providers working with libraries, specifically drawing on small and indie presses, self-published content, public domain collections, and other open sources.
Help foster stronger direct relationships among libraries and between libraries and publishers

Premise: What needs to be done now? What can be done now? We'll keep a parking lot for the rest.

Deliverables

Recommendations for how to acquire multiple types of e-content
A landscape survey of different types of content providers
Describe mechanisms for how libraries can onboard content to a national platform to promote better-informed decision making about e-content purchasing

Members

Name	Organization	Email	State
Rita Baladad	Minitex	balad 001@umn.edu	MN
Paula MacKinnon	Califa Library Group	pmackinnon@califa.org	CA
Christine Peterson (co-chair)	Amigos Library Services	peterson@amigos.org	TX
Michael Santangelo	Book Ops	michaelpsantangelo@bookops.org	NY
Stephen Spohn (co-chair)	Massachusetts Library System	steve@masslibsystem.org	MA

Refine this charge and share with LEAP to further refine and finalize. 13 May 2016
Research and report on existing library- and library consortia-publisher direct connections related to eBook acquisitions. 31 May 2016
Administer a landscape survey of different types of content providers. 31 May 2016
Develop a publisher relations plan that (1) educates, (2) advocates, (3) promotes LEAP and (4) establishes formal (local? regional? national?) contacts for publishers.
Develop a model license that outlines the desired choices for buying and selling content.
Develop a curated short list of publishers that we want to target in the short to medium term.
Develop a plan for self-published content.
Develop a plan to obtain public domain content - once and for all done!
Develop a plan for other content - from libraries, from unsolicited publishers/authors/etc.
Answer the question: Are there different streams/processes for adding different kinds of content? If so, then describe them.