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November 5, 2007 |
Safari Books Online to Add Wiley Titles The on-demand electronic reference and learning platform adds selected Wiley business and technology titles to the Safari Books Online Library.   |
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February 4, 2013 |
EBSCO Releases eBook Public Library Collection eBook Public Library Collection includes more than 25,000 general reference ebook titles in a variety of subjects and topics including social sciences, language and literature, and science and technology. |
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March 15, 2010 |
Infobase Ebooks Now Available Through Gale Virtual Reference Library This allows libraries to provide access to popular ebooks from Facts On File and Ferguson Publishing along with more than 4,500 existing electronic reference titles, expanding the library's offerings while avoiding duplicated resources. |
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November 10, 2011 |
Safari Books Online to Use Ingram's CoreSource for Digital Asset Management Safari Books Online's on-demand digital learning library provides books, training videos, and learning resources from leading publishers and authors, all on a searchable, interactive learning platform. |
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July 25, 2011 |
NetLibrary Ebooks Now Integrated on EBSCOhost Platform EBSCO Publishing's collection of more than 300,000 ebook and audiobook titles (formerly from NetLibrary) is now integrated on EBSCOhost. |
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October 27, 2003 |
NewsBreaks MuseGlobal Launches MuseSeek for Consumers... LexisNexis to Provide Legal Research to Microsoft Office... OverDrive Adds New Publishers to Its Digital Library... |
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June 17, 2010 |
ABC-CLIO eBooks Available Through Gale Virtual Reference Library "By adding these titles to Gale Virtual Reference Library, we are expanding our reach and are providing librarians, students, and researchers with greater access to our ebooks," says Tom Fitzgerald, ABC-CLIO's vice president of sales. |
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January 22, 2009 |
Wiley Announces Online Books Agreement With YBP Library Services Nearly 7,000 online books will be available on YBP's main collection planning and acquisitions tool, GOBI (Global Online Bibliographic Information. |
Searcher
April 2012
Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us. |
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August 6, 2012 |
ebrary Enhances Strategic Ebook Acquisition Program for Public Libraries To enable public libraries to affordably and strategically meet the nonfiction ebook needs of patrons, ebrary, a ProQuest business, added more than 9,000 new titles from publishers including Bentham Science and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt across acquisition models. |
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February 4, 2002
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Acquires Micromedia, Ltd.; Adds More Titles; Upgrades Interface While the Web world of Net newbies swirls with dot-coms and dot-gones, one of the information industry's oldest and steadiest players continues to get the job done, adding new content and new sources to its already impressive aggregations... |
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October 9, 2014 |
3M Cloud Library Partners With NOOK for Library Lending U.S. libraries can purchase GlowLight e-readers directly from Barnes & Noble to loan to their patrons and offer access to 3M Cloud Library titles on the devices. |
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March 2009
Marji McClure |
Turning a New Page in Ebooks Amazon brought renewed attention to ebooks, especially in the consumer market, with its 2007 launch of the Amazon Kindle and, most recently, the February release of the Amazon Kindle 2. |
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June 25, 2012 |
Penguin Group Launches Library Lending Pilot Program Penguin Group, The New York Public Library, and 3M Library Systems announced a pilot project that will make Penguin eBooks available to patrons of both The New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library. |
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October 15, 2015 |
BiblioCommons Gains Random House Ebooks Libraries can use this platform to offer their patrons library-centered ebook discovery, borrowing, and reading. |
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July 29, 2010 |
U.S. Public Libraries Can Provide High Schools with Free Credo Reference Access Recognizing the increasing burden on public libraries to support the research needs of students at local schools, Credo Reference will be made available to a library's local public high school(s). |
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August 28, 2008 |
OverDrive Now Offers Penguin Group Audiobooks and eBooks to Public Libraries Public libraries can now lend downloaded audiobooks and ebooks by authors such as Stephen King and Nick Hornby to their patrons. |
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October 1, 2013
Brandi Scardilli |
Who's Who in Ebooks Just as books don't magically appear on library shelves, ebooks don't automatically pop up in a library's online catalog. Librarians work with ebook vendors to get econtent into the hands, or rather, onto the e-readers, of their patrons. |
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April 22, 2013 |
World Scientific Publishing Signs Ebook Agreement With YBP Library Services Customers will be able to access the publisher's 2012-2013 Front List Full Collection of ebooks that will be available for purchase from World Scientific Publishing through GOBI 3 (Global Online Bibliographic Information), YBP's acquisition and collection management interface. |
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July 7, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Ebook Developments Were HOT at ALA At the recent American Library Association Annual conference, it's clear that librarians are focused on embracing the expanding digital world and specifically on providing ebooks as part of library services. |
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November 2, 2009 |
Safari Books Online 6.0 Offers Improved Usability Safari Books Online's entire collection of more than 8,000 books, training videos, rough cuts, short cuts, and articles is available online. |
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March 12, 2012 |
3M Cloud Library Announces Integration With Polaris ILS The 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Service will now be integrated with the Polaris Integrated Library System, allowing patrons at participating libraries to discover both physical and digital collections from wherever they are browsing. |
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October 1, 2012 |
Pearson Launches New Early Edition Ebook Service Pearson announced that readers everywhere will now have the opportunity to get early access to important, time-sensitive topics and technologies before the official publication. |
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April 15, 2014 |
Random House Ebooks Now Available From EBSCO EBSCO Information Services now offers more than 30,000 frontlist and popular backlist ebooks from Random House on its EBSCO eBooks and Audiobooks platform. |
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August 2, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
Digital Lending Goes into OverDrive I'd been hearing some buzz this summer about various improvements made by OverDrive to its services for libraries-more content, mobile apps, simplified procedures, etc. |
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September 8, 2015 |
ProQuest Makes More Early European Books Available ProQuest launched Collection 7, the newest part of its Early European Books database, with 7,450 titles. |
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April 25, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Simon & Schuster Joins `Big 6' in Moving Ebooks Into Libraries On April 15, 2013, Simon & Schuster became the last of the "Big Six" (now actually five with the merger of Random House and Penguin) publishers to dip their toes into the waters of ebook sales to libraries. |
D-Lib
December 1999 |
Editorial As publications become available both online and in print, some groups of users find that they prefer the online versions. But in relinquishing the tradition of print journals, libraries require more than a few assurances from the publisher on whom they must depend... |
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August 7, 2014 |
OverDrive Introduces New Features for Holds OverDrive added two new features that are designed to help patrons borrow in-demand titles from a library's collection: automatic borrowing and hold suspension. |
D-Lib
February 2003
Abby A. Goodrum |
Visual Resource Reference: Collaboration Between Digital Museums and Digital Libraries The question faced by libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions in this world of visual information is how to respond to a growing public demand for 'round-the-clock' networked accessibility to multimedia, images and image collections. |
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November 13, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest IBISWorld Introduces i-Expert... Safari Books Online Adds Short Cuts... Cybrary City in Second Life to Showcase Library Resources... |
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December 17, 2001
Paula J. Hane |
xrefer Launches xreferplus Digital Reference Service for Libraries xreferplus is a giant online reference library that provides access to an aggregated and integrated collection of 100 reference books from 21 leading publishers, including Oxford University Press, Penguin, Grove, Houghton Mifflin, Columbia, and Macmillan... |
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May 6, 2013 |
ebrary Adds Titles From Wiley to Academic Complete Academic Complete serves as a foundational, growing collection with more than 86,300 scholarly titles from which libraries can pinpoint patron needs and drive strategic ebook acquisition. |
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November 3, 2015
Brandi Scardilli |
Who's Who in E-Audiobooks Audiobooks have come a long way since books on tape. Most vendors now offer e-audiobooks as digital files that can be streamed online or downloaded for offline listening. |
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June 23, 2015 |
3M Library Systems Updates Self-Checkout Interface Libraries can use the interface to highlight selected titles, and patrons can borrow ebooks from 3M's SelfCheck kiosk with a single click. |
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February 6, 2014 |
3M Cloud Library Launches in Canada and Debuts Automation Tool 3M announced that the 3M Cloud Library ebook lending system from 3M Library Systems is now available in Canada. |
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June 27, 2011 |
OverDrive Adds Simultaneous Access Ebook Suppliers to Catalog Collections from Thomas Nelson, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Crabtree Publishing, and Lonely Planet will enable libraries to provide `always available' eBooks. |
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August 13, 2012 |
ALA Releases Report on Ebook Business Models for Public Libraries The report, which was created by the ALA Digital Content and Libraries Working Group, suggests opportunities for publishers to showcase content through public libraries. |
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July 1, 2014
Nancy K. Herther |
Libraries Continue to Battle for Fair Access to Ebooks Academic and special libraries have found comparatively fewer problems in gaining access to ebooks for their clients than school and public libraries. |
PC World
February 21, 2007
Scott Spanbauer |
Mine the Net for the Latest Research and Knowledge Hone your search skills to uncover troves of serious, primary-source material on the Web. |
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January 19, 2009 |
Cleveland Public Library First to Offer EPUB Ebook Downloads Readers at both Cleveland Public Library and CLEVNET member libraries can check out and download EPUB eBooks from the library's download website. |
D-Lib
October 2004
John Cox |
E-Books: Challenges and Opportunities Where content matches need, e-books can support the academic mission effectively, saving time and adding value as a collective online reference resource rather than a set of individual titles. |
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September 15, 2015 |
ProQuest Facilitates Library Access to Global Newspapers ProQuest rolled out the Newspapers.com Library Edition, giving library patrons access to more than 85 million pages of digitized newspapers from the early 1700s to the early 2000s. |
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April 1, 2010 |
EBSCO Publishing Announces New How-To Databases for Public Library Patrons Libraries are busier than ever and patrons making legal decisions or looking to create or expand their small businesses need resources for their specific demands. |
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August 2000 |
Surpass Releases Web Safari Web-Based Catalog Surpass Software has announced the release of Web Safari, the Web-based catalog for users of Surpass library automation software. With Web Safari, patrons can access the library's holdings from any computer running a standard Web browser |
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March 4, 2010 |
IEEE-Wiley eBooks Collection Added to IEEE Xplore Digital Library This will offer IEEE customers online access to the more than 400 ebooks that comprise the IEEE-Wiley eBooks collection, which spans numerous content areas including bioengineering, power and energy, and communication technologies. |
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March 5, 2007 |
ProQuest CSA's Marketing Toolkit for Public Libraries Makes Its Debut ProQuest CSA just launched a free Library Marketing Toolkit for public librarians, who are facing many challenges today. |
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June 2, 2015
Brandi Scardilli |
Public Libraries Embrace Self-Publishing Services For authors who want to self-publish their books, the public library may be the best place to find services that can help. |
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February 5, 2009 |
ALPSP eBooks Collection Launched by Ingram Digital The much anticipated new ebooks cooperative service has launched, enabling Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers members (ALPSP) to offer multipublisher collections to libraries. |
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June 10, 2002
Barbara Quint |
QuestionPoint Marks New Era in Virtual Reference QuestionPoint stems from an arrangement between the Library of Congress' Public Service Collections Directorate and OCLC to provide libraries with access to a growing collaborative network of reference librarians in the U.S. and around the world. |
