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From The Digital Shift and School Library Journal: The number of kids reading ebooks has nearly doubled since 2010, according to Scholastic’s Kids & Family Reading Report, which was released today. The national survey of kids ages 6–17 and their parents also found that half of kids ages 9–17 say they would read more books […]
Statistics: Young Adult Books Attract Growing Numbers of Adult Fans
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, News, Publishing, Scholastic
|From Bowker: More than half the consumers of books classified for young adults aren’t all that young. Fully 55% of buyers of works that publishers designate for kids aged 12 to 17 – nicknamed YA books — are 18 or older, with the largest segment aged 30 to 44. Accounting for 28 percent of sales, […]
Motion Picture Licensing Corp. Begins Offering Umbrella License For Public Libraries
Libraries, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Scholastic, School Libraries
|Word that the Motion Picture Licensing Corporation has started to offer an “umbrella license” (annual license for unlimited viewings) for movies/videos shown in a public library setting. The Nevada State Library and the Suffolk Cooperative Library System in New York are charter users of the license that’s priced per location, per year. From MPLC: The […]
Scholarly Publishing: Purdue University Signs New One-Year, $2.9 Million Contract With Elsevier
Elsevier, Journal Articles, Libraries, Publishing, Scholastic
|From The Exponent (Purdue University): Purdue students and faculty could have lost access to the majority of scholastic research articles available online through Purdue libraries today. Purdue signed another one-year contract with a publishing company that allows access to journal articles necessary for research for $2.9 million, after being threatened to be cut off in […]
eBooks: OverDrive Adds 20 New Publishing Partners During August
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Publishing, Scholastic
|New publishing partners include Information Today and ALA Editions that we mentioned the other day and also: Scholastic US and Scholastic Canada Soundview Executive Book Summaries Loyola Press Andrews McMeel Publishing Poisoned Pen Press IT Governance The complete list of “just announced” publishers partnering with OverDrive is available here.
Most Downloaded lists are available for the U.S., Canada, UK, and Australia. A global ranking is also available. Discussion About August 2011 Lists by Jason Sockel (via OverDrive Library Blog) Direct to Access All Lists (Top 10 For Each Category are Available) Worldwide #1s For August 2011 Download eBooks – Adult Fiction The Help, by […]
OverDrive's Direct Involvement With Today's JK Rowling/Harry Potter News
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Management and Leadership, News, Publishing, Reports, Scholastic
|It’s likely that you’ve read, seen and/or discussed today’s JK Rowling/Harry Potter news by this hour. If not, you can take a look here, here (video of announcement and news conference) and here. In a nutshell, Rowling’s new Pottermore web site (launches July 31st) will be home to, “new material about Harry Potter characters, places, […]
ALA/ALSC Adds Several Sites To Superb "Web Sites for Kids" Collection
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Resources, Scholastic
|Here’s a List of ALL Sites just added to the collection. Additions Include: Weather Channel Kids – www.theweatherchannelkids.com/ GoGo News – www.gogonews.com/ My Young Child – http://myyoungchild.org/ Neil Gaiman’s MouseCircus – www.mousecircus.com/ Science of Baseball – www.exploratorium.edu/baseball/index.html Study Jams – http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/index.htm@ From ALA/ALSC (Association of Library Services for Children) Great Web Sites for Kids (GWS) […]
Several New eBook Publishers Now Available to OverDrive School, College, and University Library Customers
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, Libraries, News, Publishing, Scholastic
|From OverDrive: New eBook publishers supplying to OverDrive-powered school, college, and university libraries include Houghton Mifflin, Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Kaeden Publishing, Barnes Report, and ALA Editions. They join Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., Disney Digital Books, Elsevier Science, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Scholastic, Taylor & Francis, and many others in providing digital books to libraries via OverDrive. Read the […]
The March/April 2011 Issue of D-Lib is Now Online
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Journal Articles, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Reports, Scholastic, School Libraries
|D-Lib (Volume 17, Number 3/4) Direct to Table-of-Contents Articles Discovering the Information Needs of Humanists When Planning an Institutional Repository Article by David Seaman, Dartmouth College Library Abstract: Through in-person interviews with humanities faculty members, this study examines what information needs are expressed by humanities scholars that an institutional repository (IR) can address. It also asks […]