• For course materials – including whole books and making them full-text search-matchable and steps away from a very fast self-serve digitization kiosk (Note: during pandemics, DLSG’s CDL solution supports controlled distribution of digital course materials)
• For professors’ recommended reading lists – including all books, not just the most important ones that are put on reserves, making them full-text search-matchable and steps away from a very fast self-serve digitization kiosk provides a far greater value than the reserves desk
• For researchers – just ask how much value they would place on being able to full-text search-match all of the monographs in your print collections that they consider to be highly relevant for their topic of research, and being able to make several ‘ILL’ (digital document delivery) requests per month for PDFs of chapters from their chosen monographs (note: this feature is supported by DLSG’s request-fulfillment workflow, which is fulfillable at around 10 chapter requests per hour using a fast new KIC system, enabled only if the library chooses, and has extensive limiting controls to avoid work overload)
• For general use of your main print collections – this provides full-text search and search-match for what is arguably the vast majority of the items in your collections that patrons would like to search and search-match, and it also shortens the walk to the highest quality and fastest KIC systems in your library
• With HotLinks’ optional random access to a digital sampling of pages in the chapter, users need not depend on short bibliographic records that represent a 300 to 500 page book, but instead, can sample some pages and self-determine their interest level (Note that this optional feature emulates browsing books and leafing through the pages by book store patrons, and is considered to be supported implicitly but not explicitly by copyright law, with one potential caveat – the users should be able to purchase books that they find and like – see the next section on optional support for purchasing content)
• Due to all of these wonderful benefits, monograph utilization will likely rise quite substantially and provide the best possible argument for budget increases
• And finally, your extra spending on scholarly monographs will help motivate top researchers and scholars to write more monographs

1. complying with DMCA Section 108 (see Library Superpowers)
2. not requiring the purchase of any new digital licenses
3. not requiring the purchase of new digitization hardware – the CCA option can be added to one of your existing KIC self-serve digitization system
4. concentrating a carefully selected 1-2% of your print collections into a small area with a fast self-serve digitization system nearby, items that are most likely to be used repeatedly – professors’ recommended reading lists, researchers’ relevant monographs list, and books that have been checked out more than once in the past few years
5. Providing the revolutionary new HotLinks full-text search-match discovery facility for these items and capturing from each selected item, the metadata necessary for HotLinks – two to four books per hour can be processed into the CCA
6. Providing ILL services (digital document delivery) – DLSG offers a workflow system that can fulfill ten or more requests for chapters per hour, and it has extensive throttle controls to keep costs within budget

1. allocate the space
2. request recommended reading lists from professors and relevant monographs lists from researchers – you don’t need many respondents to get started. Early results will convince most of the rest of the professors and researchers that it is worth their time
3. provision the area with an existing KIC self-serve digitization kiosks or buy the latest model, the fastest high-quality book scanner on the market
4. Install the CCA and KIC ILL/DDD workflow options on the KIC system.
5. Begin ingesting the selected items

It is perhaps common knowledge that many librarians consider it inappropriate or even unseemly to support purchasing content in their library or in any of its apps. However, not only does a ‘buy button’ support a clause in the Fair Use section of DMCA (Section 107), but offering users the ability to purchase and own a copy of content that they found in the library is also a benefit to copyrights holders for which they would likely be willing to make concessions that can be of very high value to your patrons.

Among the concessions that copyrights holders could be very willing to make is to explicitly give your library the right to show users large samplings of digital pages of the chapters they found using HotLinks. The copyrights holders may require that the sample pages be randomly selected, but even so, these sample pages can uses to determine the quality and relevance of a chapter of a book or a n entire book, which is very valuable. Having confidence that a particular monograph is of sufficient quality and relevance can be used to promote 1) more ILL requests, which provides rationale for library budget increases; and 2) instant sales, for example, when instant permanent access to an entire volume is cost-justified. This will in turn promote more writing and publishing of high-quality monographs, which is exactly in line with the constitutional clause that allows copyright law to exist.

Note that DLSG’s solution finds content in excerpt size blocks that can legally be requested and fulfilled via the library’s ILL services, so the random sample percentage can be set as high as 50% or whatever percentage ensures that most users will need to make a formal ILL request or will simply opt to purchase or rent the content, which is another DLSG-provided capability.

Note also that allowing random access to some pages closely emulates the practice of perusing a book at a bookstore before purchasing it, and is highly likely to be judged as legal in a federal court and is therefore very unlikely to result in a lawsuit. Also, if the library opts to enable DLSG’s Rent/Buy button, showing random pages is probably necessary to promote sales, and therefore, quite possibly a requirement for compliance with copyright law. Although this has is not explicitly legal, it could be made so as part of the long overdue update to DMCA Section 108, something like “… a random sample of digital pages can be made viewable to allow potential buyers and ILL requestors to judge the quality and relevance of the content for themselves.” Even as much as 50% of the pages of a chapter justifiable.

Alternately, the publisher can agree to an Aggregate CDL deal that allows libraries to display all of the content while the user is in the library.