Principles
1. A library must have the right to license and/or purchase any commercially available eBook without embargo. If titles are withheld from the library market by publishers and/or authors, national legislation should require such access under reasonable terms and conditions. Libraries must be able to determine their own acquisitions by choosing specific titles from publisher or distributor listings in support of their mandate to provide community access to information and knowledge.
2. A library must have access to eBooks under reasonable terms and conditions and at a fair price. Terms of access should be transparent and costs predictable to enable the library to operate within its budget and funding cycles.
3. eBook licensing/purchase options must respect copyright limitations and exceptions available to libraries and their users in national law, such as the right to:
a. Copy a portion of the work
b. Re-format the work for preservation purposes if it is licensed and/or purchased for permanent access
c. Provide a temporary copy of the work to another library in response to a user request
d. Reformat a work to enable access for people with print disabilities
e. By- pass a technological protection measure for the purpose of exercising any non-infringing purpose.
4. eBooks available to libraries should be platform neutral and developed with standards for accessibility. Content should be capable of integration into library systems and online public access catalogues, and interoperable across platforms, applications and e-reader devices that the library or library patron has chosen to invest in.
5. Strategies must be in place to ensure the long term preservation of eBook titles by libraries. Long term availability of eBook titles should not be compromised by factors such as a publisher ceasing to operate. This can be addressed through measures including the collaborative development of archival databases by publishers and libraries and legislative solutions which require the legal deposit of digital content with specified agencies.
6. eBook services must protect the privacy of library users. Libraries and their users must be able to make informed decisions about the control and use of personal information including reading choices.
These Principles were endorsed by the IFLA Governing Board in February 2013. 1st Rev April 2013, 2nd Rev August 2013.
Siehe http://www.ifla.org/node/7418
Die Principles: http://www.ifla.org/files/assets/hq/topics/e-lending/principles-for-library-elending-rev-aug-2013.pdf
via http://log.netbib.de/archives/2013/08/17/ifla-leitlinien-zur-ebook-ausleihe-von-bibliotheken/