Too many ebook cooks: ineffectual committees aren't fast enough to ensure robust access.(editorial)(Editorial)

HOW MANY COMMITTEES DOES IT TAKE TO COME up with an ebook strategy for public libraries? It seems you can't have too many. I won't go into a litany of American Library Association [ALA] working groups, except to mention the unfortunately named EQUAAC (Equitable Access to Electronic Content). The disparate committees and initiatives haven't made inroads with the holdouts among the Big Six publishers that still refuse to allow ebook lending of their titles in libraries. They haven't had much impact on public awareness of ebooks in libraries or the issues surrounding them, either. That's why library leaders like Columbus's Patrick Losinski says in an article at TheDigitalShift.com (and in …