MORE 'EBOOKS' POSTS
UC Berkeley Researchers Aim to Revolutionize e-Books
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Journal Articles, Management and Leadership, News
From The Daily Californian (Student Paper at UC Berkeley): According to Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) student Jacob Hartnell, research on e-books will improve an inefficient system that is “app-based” instead of “Web-based.” He noted that existing e-books viewed on one device are often viewed differently or cannot be viewed at all on […]
From BBC News: “Racy lit” has led to a surge in library loans in Surrey as romance novels topped the list of the most popular e-books borrowed last year. Councillor Helyn Clack said the county’s love of erotic fiction and a boom in tablet computer sales had been credited with an 18% surge in e-loans. […]
From Fox 23 (Tulsa): The Tulsa City County Library will pilot a new eBook service to make 22,000 titles available to library users. [Clip] Always Available eBooks, powered by library eBook vendor Freading, provides library cardholders with instant access to their chosen titles; no waiting and no “holds” queues. New eBook titles are added weekly […]
From Today’s Announcement: SirsiDynix and 3M today announced their intent to integrate the 3M Cloud Library content into eResource Central, currently scheduled for release in Q1 of 2013. [Clip] For library users, eResource Central provides simple access to library resources, including ebooks and ejournals, via a single user interface. eResource Central will include full support […]
From an article titled, “Students differ in preference of textual aids,” appearing in the Texas A&M student newspaper, The Battalion. “It’s easier to carry around a device that has electronic books on it than to carry around textbooks,” Kelli McCosham, sophomore animal science major said. “It’s also more ‘green’ and is probably cheaper overall than […]
Marketing Pro Discusses Public Libraries in New Forbes Blog Post
| Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
David Vinjamuri, someone with a lot of experience in marketing/branding, an adjunct faculty member at NYU, and a blogger/columnist for Forbes has posted,“Why Public Libraries Matter: And How They Can Do More”. This is the second article in a two-part series by Vinjamuri on public libraries. A Few Comments 1. I 100% agree with Vinjamuri […]
OverDrive’s Next Generation Websites Now Live at 22 Libraries
| Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
Earlier today we learned that 3M Cloud Library and Polaris were announcing the release of an integrated ebook catalog (3M Cloud into a Polaris OPAC installation) at the Baltimore County Public Library. You can take a look here. This afternoon we’ve heard from OverDrive who blogged that their next generation websites were now live in […]
Just Released: Report Of The ARL Joint Task Force On Services To Patrons With Print Disabilities
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Resources
New from the Association of Research Libraries. Title Report Of The ARL Joint Task Force On Services To Patrons With Print Disabilities Task Force Members Mary Case, Chair (Illinois at Chicago) Cynthia Archer (York) Nancy Baker (Iowa) Will Cross (North Carolina State) John Harwood (Penn State) Sarah Hawthorne (California, Berkeley) Kurt Herzer (Johns Hopkins) Tito […]
Jennifer Bergen from PCMag.com offers a look at 8 enhanced e-book titles. Enhanced ebooks can include video, film clips from news reels or major motion pictures, drawings, author interviews, original music, diagrams, photos, and more. In most cases, you can think of an enhanced ebook as an ebook with that extra bonus disc of features […]
From IDC: Media Tablet and eReader Markets Beat Second Quarter Targets, Forecast Increased for 2011
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, News, Publishing
From an IDC News Release: Worldwide media tablet shipments rose by 88.9% on a sequential basis and 303.8% year over year in the second calendar quarter of 2011 (2Q11) to 13.6 million units, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Media Tablet and eReader Tracker. Based on this strong performance in the second […]
