Mobile Access to Library E-Books Comes to Four European Countries
Library service provider DiViBib has released a new free Apple iOS app that will give readers access to a 2,000-title mobile library of German books.
According to the Börsenblatt, users who download the free Onleihe app from the iTunes Store will have access to the e-book collections of more than 200 libraries in Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland. Once the lending period comes to an end, the user’s license expires and the title then automatically becomes available for the next download.
Here are a couple of screen caps from the app along with a mechanical translation of its App Store description.
Note: According to the App Store info page this app first became available sometime in March.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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