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ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2002
Donald T. Hawkins |
Electronic Books: Reports of Their Death Have Been Exaggerated It is now apparent that the e-book shot missed its mark, and the e-book revolution has fizzled. Indeed, it never really got off the ground. But despite all the gloom and doom surrounding them, e-books are not dead. Indeed, some e-book market segments appear to be stirring to life.   |
Searcher
December 2011
Charles Hamaker |
FEATURE: Ebooks on Fire: Controversies Surrounding Ebooks in Libraries While it might not matter to the occasional or recreational reader, the ebook presents a host of challenges for the role of the book as transmitter, carrier, and shaper of our written word cultural heritage. |
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. |
Information Today
June 26, 2006
Paula J. Hane |
Enhanced SpringerLink Offers eBook Collection Springer, which claims to be the world's largest scientific, technical and medical book publisher, has announced it will offer its complete publishing program online and on one integrated platform. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2010
David Stern |
Ebooks: From Institutional to Consortial Considerations It is not too early for academic libraries to begin considering the implementation issues for consortial purchases and/or leases of ebooks. |
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. |
D-Lib
October 2000
Carol Hansen Montgomery |
Electronic Journal Collections Measuring the Impact of an Electronic Journal Collection on Library Costs: A Framework and Preliminary Observations... |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
September 2002
Paula J. Hane |
Open eBook Forum Releases Industry Report In late July, the Open eBook Forum released a report that provides industry statistics, which the organization says show solid growth in electronic publishing and a positive significant shift in the perception of electronic book publishing. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2003
Mick O'Leary |
E-Book Scenarios Updated Almost 3 years ago in this column I made sweeping forecasts for the future of e-bookss). Some of them have occurred exactly as predicted, and stand as proof of my prescience and insight. As for others... well, let's not dwell on the past |
Salon.com
July 5, 2000
Janelle Brown |
The Napster library Does the San Francisco Public Library's plan to lend out e-books portend the death of the publishing industry? |
Information Today
February 2001
Paula J. Hane |
IT Interview Questia Provides Digital Library, Research Tools... |
Information Today
September 13, 2010 |
Ebook Collections Coming to Project MUSE Platform Project MUSE, a provider of humanities and social science periodical content for libraries, announced a new initiative to incorporate scholarly book content into its research platform and product offerings. |
D-Lib
November 2001
Jola G.B. Prinsen |
A Challenging Future Awaits Libraries Able to Change Highlights of the International Summer School on the Digital Library... |
Information Today
September 30, 2002
Barbara Quint |
Gale Launches E-Books with OCLC's netLibrary Gale Group, a business unit of Thomson Corp., has launched an e-book program that will make a large collection of its reference material available to online library patrons through netLibrary. |
Information Today
June 28, 2010
Barbara Quint |
Knock, Knock! OCLC at the Door With WorldCat Direct OCLC, the library vendor run by librarians, continues to push its services and the services of the libraries it serves into a more demanding user environment. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2011 |
In Brief and In the News A new step toward digital library foundations... Scholarly reading and the value of library resources... Reposit: positing a new kind of repository deposit... |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2016 |
In Brief and In the News Should there be a right to be forgotten?... Registration underway for Digital Library Federation's eResearch Network... The Digital Liberal Arts Exchange... |
| D-Lib |
In Brief and In the News Harnessing the Cognitive Surplus of the Nation by Crowdsourcing... Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance receives implementation funding from the Mellon Foundation... Content from European National and Research Libraries Now Available through New Portal for Researchers... |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2012
Tomasz Neugebauer |
Report on the 16th International Conference on Electronic Publishing: Social Shaping of Digital Publishing The Conference on Electronic Publishing has provided a valuable venue for the exchange of ideas between librarians, computer scientists, publishers and others since it was first organized in 1997. |
Information Today
November 19, 2001
Paula J. Hane |
OCLC Offers to Purchase netLibrary's Assets OCLC announced that it has made an offer to purchase "substantially all the assets of netLibrary and assume certain netLibrary liabilities"... |
Information Today
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
April 2001 |
To the Editor In response to the opinion piece, The Librarians' Dilemma: Contemplating the Costs of the "Big Deal"... |
Information Today
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. |
D-Lib
October 2000 |
In Brief The Digital Performance Archive... Eprints.org Software for Creating Institutional and Individual Open Archives... SciELO - a Model for Cooperative Electronic Publishing in Developing Countries... Librarians agonize over which journals to cancel when library budgets can't keep up... etc. |
Information Today
June 3, 2010
Barbara Quint |
Public Library Complete (PLC) from ebrary Offers Ebooks and More This includes includes more than 20,000 ebooks from leading publishers with more ebooks coming into the package every day-at no additional cost to subscribing libraries. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2012 |
EBook Buzz: University Presses and Ebooks: A New Horizon What's the buzz about? EBook Buzz, ONLINE's newest column, will discuss and debate the advances of ebooks in libraries and scholarly publishing. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2008 |
In Brief Winners of The EMC Heritage Trust Project Grants Announced... VIF Project Completes Framework for Identification of Versions in Digital Repositories... NISO Forum Sparked Debate on Discovery Tools... etc. |
Information Today
June 3, 2014
Brandi Scardilli |
Getting the Most Out of Discovery Service Here's an overview of the four major discovery services for libraries, including their newly implemented features. |
Information Today
November 2000 |
Baker & Taylor Announces E-Book Partnerships Baker & Taylor, Inc. has announced the selection of two key technology partners by Informata.com, its new business-to-business e-commerce venture... |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Europeana releases first free iPad app... IMLS and Webjunction convening examines continuing education for library professionals... ALA Task Force releases digital literacy recommendations... |
Information Today
April 30, 2012
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Look for Circulating Law Ebooks at a Library Near You LexisNexis and OverDrive announced that they have agreed to create customized ebook lending and management services, offering "the largest collection of authoritative legal ebook content on all major mobile devices and desktop platforms." |
D-Lib
December 2007
Kaufman & Ubois |
Good Terms - Improving Commercial-Noncommercial Partnerships for Mass Digitization OCLC Programs and Research engaged Intelligent Television to study the partnership agreements between cultural institutions and for-profit companies for the mass digitization of books and other media. This report presents the findings of that study. |
D-Lib
September 2001 |
Clips and Pointers Building and Sustaining Digital Collections... Trust in Cyberspace... Selection and Presentation of Commercially Available Electronic Resources... Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository... Feasibility Study for a National Union Catalogue for the UK... etc. |
D-Lib
February 2008
Datema et al. |
In Brief Getting the most out of your institutional repository... Science assets of the digital age at risk... Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement: a documentary history... etc. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2011 |
In Brief SEALS: Semantic Evaluation at Large Scale... Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award 2012... New library study: demand up for technology, budget cuts limit access... |
D-Lib
June 2004
Norbert Lossau |
Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Libraries Need to Discover the Academic Internet If libraries do not want to become marginalized in a key area of their traditional services, they need to acknowledge the challenges that come with the globalization of scholarly information, the existence and further growth of the academic internet . |
D-Lib
July 2001 |
In Brief Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries... Project ANGEL: Guidance and Guardianship for Networked UK Learners... The City of Los Angeles Spatial Index is Now Available on the Internet... Caltech Registers Two Repositories with the Open Archives Initiative... etc. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2012 |
In Brief and In the News Grant Awards Announcement: Museums for America... VIVO to Join DuraSpace Organization Incubator Initiative... EUscreen releases Online Exhibitions... |
Information Today
December 2000 |
Innovative Interfaces Announces E-Book Integration, Millennium Implementations Innovative Interfaces, Inc. has announced the integration of netLibrary e-books into its INNOPAC and Millennium library automation systems... |
D-Lib
February 2007
Coyle & Hillmann |
Resource Description and Access (RDA): Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century A rearrangement of the cataloging rules is not the right starting point for libraries. The library catalog has undergone considerable change from a simple finding list to an integrated database that serves both library management and user access functions. |
Searcher
March 2005
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge Many publishers are joining authors in permitting open access through self-archiving in institutional repositories. |
D-Lib
September 2000 |
Clips and Pointers LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress... Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging... The Digital Library Toolkit... Handbook for Digital Projects... Guide to Good Practice Creating Digital Performance Resources... Successes and Failures of Digital Libraries... Version 32, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography... Documents in Information Science... MagPortal... Deadline Reminders... etc. |
Information Today
May 7, 2012
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest for Everyone: The Udini Service Officially Launches ProQuest has officially launched Udini, an end-user service that is open to all web users. |
D-Lib
April 2003 |
In Brief Report on the NLM/AMPA Archiving Forum... Copyright and Licensing for Digital Preservation... The Public Knowledge Project... Manifesto on Open Access to Scholarly Literature... The Internet Archive OAI-PMH Implementation... etc. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2002 |
Clips and Pointers Recruitment, Retention & Restructuring: Human Resources in Academic Libraries... National Academies to Release First Phase of Counterterrorism Study This Summer... Proceedings from the 5th International Conference on Virtual Communities... etc. |
D-Lib
October 2001
Brewster Kahle |
Public Access to Digital Material The goal of universal access to our cultural heritage is within our grasp. With current digital technology we can build comprehensive collections, and with digital networks we can make these available to students and scholars all over the world... |
D-Lib
January 2000
Gail M. Hodge |
Best Practices for Digital Archiving: An Information Life Cycle Approach Digital information is fragile in ways that differ from traditional technologies, such as paper or microfilm. It is more easily corrupted or altered without recognition... |
Information Today
November 2000 |
SIRSI Announces iBistro Alliances, Implementation of Unicorn System SIRSI Corp. has announced an alliance with netLibrary to integrate the latter's e-book infrastructure into SIRSI's new iBistro Internet Access Center... |
Information Today
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. |
