Canada: New Brunswick Public Libraries Get $100K For Electronic Books
The New Brunswick Public Library Service plans to buy $100,000 worth of new e-books and downloadable audio books, thanks to a donation from the New Brunswick Public Libraries Foundation.
The donation will add about 4,000 new titles to the electronic library’s virtual collection, just in time for Christmas when some New Brunswickers may discover e-readers or other mobile devices under the tree, officials said.
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The Electronic Library New Brunswick was created in 2010. The latest titles will bring the total collection to more than 13,000.
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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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