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December 2003 |
Product News and Reviews Nexcerpt Announces Product Enhancements... ebrary, Society of Manufacturing Engineers Launch Manufacturing Engineering Database... Dialog Offers New Content, Portal Service... etc.   |
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November 25, 2002 |
News Digest OverDrive Announces Digital Library Reserve... LexisNexis Offers SEC Data from EDGAR Online... Factiva Adds Quotes Module to Product Suite |
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April 24, 2008 |
ProQuest Rolls Out Safari Select to Public Libraries Patrons at the public library reference desk in search of information on popular technology can now find answers to their questions in the library or from home. |
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. |
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November 3, 2015
Brandi Scardilli |
Who's Who in E-Audiobooks Audiobooks have come a long way since books on tape. Most vendors now offer e-audiobooks as digital files that can be streamed online or downloaded for offline listening. |
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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." |
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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. |
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June 27, 2011 |
OverDrive Adds Simultaneous Access Ebook Suppliers to Catalog Collections from Thomas Nelson, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Crabtree Publishing, and Lonely Planet will enable libraries to provide `always available' eBooks. |
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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. |
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November 4, 2010 |
ebrary Launches Ebook Ordering System To help libraries more affordably and efficiently acquire, manage, and distribute e-books from leading publishers, ebrary announced it has launched a new ordering system with instant fulfillment and real-time collection management. |
Information Today
October 2000 |
OverDrive Provides E-Book Authoring Tools and Publisher Portals OverDrive, Inc. has announced the release of its ReaderWorks Standard software, which is available as a free download at OverDrive's Web portal... |
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July 16, 2013 |
LexisNexis Improves Digital Library Functionality LexisNexis Legal & Professional, part of Reed Elsevier, enhanced its Digital Library elending solution with new features and functionality. |
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August 27, 2015 |
LexisNexis Integrates Digital Library With SharePoint Functionality LexisNexis Legal & Professional announced the integration of its LexisNexis Digital Library with Handshake's Portal & Search for Microsoft's SharePoint 2013 and Office 365. |
Information Today
August 2, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
Digital Lending Goes into OverDrive I'd been hearing some buzz this summer about various improvements made by OverDrive to its services for libraries-more content, mobile apps, simplified procedures, etc. |
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January 21, 2002 |
News Digest NewsEdge Adds Full-Text New York Times Content... Factiva.com to Launch in Academic and Library Market... OCLC Introduces Digitization Services... LexisNexis Launches LexisNexis Environmental Universe |
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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. |
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August 28, 2008 |
OverDrive Now Offers Penguin Group Audiobooks and eBooks to Public Libraries Public libraries can now lend downloaded audiobooks and ebooks by authors such as Stephen King and Nick Hornby to their patrons. |
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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
August 7, 2014 |
OverDrive Introduces New Features for Holds OverDrive added two new features that are designed to help patrons borrow in-demand titles from a library's collection: automatic borrowing and hold suspension. |
PC Magazine
November 23, 2011
Chloe Albanesius |
Penguin Restores E-Book Access Amidst Amazon Negotiations The Penguin Group said Wednesday that it will restore library lending access to older e-books while it negotiates with Amazon and e-book provider OverDrive on security issues. |
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July 8, 2010
Marydee Ojala |
LexisNexis Kicks a Goal Towards a New Platform The new interface for LexisNexis Academic surfaces LexisNexis content in a much more transparent fashion. |
D-Lib
July 2001
Lucia Snowhill |
E-books and Their Future in Academic Libraries: An Overview This article briefly summarizes task force findings, and outlines issues and recommendations for making e-books viable over the long term in the academic environment, based on the long-term goals of building strong research collections and providing high level services to its users... |
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April 2, 2015 |
OverDrive Marketplace Now Allows Preorders OverDrive introduced a preordering feature in its OverDrive Marketplace for all libraries, schools, and consortia. |
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June 26, 2014 |
Warner Bros. Movies Are Now Streaming via OverDrive OverDrive added Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. titles to its streaming video lending offerings in the OverDrive Marketplace. |
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April 29, 2013 |
OverDrive and III Announce Plans for Deep API Integration Building on the success of the first round of OverDrive APIs, the coming API updates will include the ability to check out and place a hold on ebooks from a library's online catalog. |
Information Today
February 25, 2010 |
Over Drive Announces New Ebook Services for 2010 OverDrive, Inc., a distributor of ebooks and audiobooks for libraries and retailers, announced new services that will significantly expand its digital distribution network for copyrighted digital media. |
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July 5, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest LexisNexis Headnotes has become integrated with Shepard's Reports to provide a more complete court case viewing service... Project MUSE, which provides online scholarly journals in the Arts, has signed up more than 20 journals for 2006... etc. |
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December 3, 2013 |
LexisNexis Increases Legal Ebook Access LexisNexis signed an agreement with Follett Higher Education Group to offer more ebook access to law students and professors. |
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February 26, 2015 |
OverDrive Introduces a Screening Room for Streaming Videos OverDrive launched a Screening Room feature that allows its library customers to highlight and promote their purchased streaming video content from OverDrive Marketplace. |
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September 29, 2011
Dan Tonkery |
Amazon Launches Library Ebook Lending Support for Kindle and an All-New Kindle Family Support for ebook lending is a major departure for Amazon and is an important milestone for libraries. Previously, Amazon only sold ebooks and did not support ebook lending for libraries even though there has been significant demand from libraries. |
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August 27, 2012 |
LexisNexis eBooks Available on Amazon Kindle Store Additionally, LexisNexis eBooks on Kindle or through Kindle reading apps are also accessible through the recently launched LexisNexis Digital Library solution. |
Information Today
November 9, 2009 |
OverDrive Brings Audiobook Access to Schools The AudioBook Classroom service allows K-12 schools to provide cost-effective access to a sizable catalog of audiobooks of many different genres and varieties and can be used in different formats. |
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Jan/Feb 2004
Suzanne Sabroski |
Industry News Microsoft Launches Beta Version of News Alerting Service... Open Access Gains Support... PeopleWare... etc. |
Information Today
April 4, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest Wilson Upgrades WilsonWeb... Copernic Improves Desktop Search... LexisNexis Launches Total Search Version 3.0... |
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January 19, 2009 |
Cleveland Public Library First to Offer EPUB Ebook Downloads Readers at both Cleveland Public Library and CLEVNET member libraries can check out and download EPUB eBooks from the library's download website. |
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October 17, 2011
Nancy K. Herther |
Kansas Leading the Fight for Fair Ebook Access in Libraries The Kansas case brings up a variety of important issues and problems with ebooks today: The issues of platform, buyers rights, and the very structure of the ebook industry. |
Information Today
July 7, 2015
Brandi Scardilli |
Digital Magazine Services for Your Library This Summer The following services help libraries offer e-magazines to their patrons. Read on to compare their features and for a sneak peek of what they're doing next. |
Information Today
February 12, 2009 |
Publishers Join EPUB eBooks Distribution Channel Through OverDrive OverDrive, Inc., a global distributor of digital books for libraries and retailers, announced a growing list of leading publishers from around the world who are selling ebooks in the emerging EPUB format. |
Information Today
April 16, 2012 |
OverDrive to Preview Library Ebook Data at London Book Fair Data from OverDrive's global library network to be made available to participating libraries and publishers includes information about ebook and digital audiobook title circulation, book demand and holds, as well as web traffic and general demographics. |
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 |
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August 25, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Will Sony Kill the Kindle? Real books are so last century. Sony hastens the demise of printing presses and book binders. |
Information Today
April 4, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Library Ebook Lending Under Attack The options libraries have are poor and our customers are frustrated. There are numerous restrictions on lending, device incompatibilities, proprietary systems, interface issues, privacy issues, and more. |
Information Today
August 14, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest The Colorado Alliance Releases Gold Rush Linker Version 4.0... LexisNexis Enhances Company Dossier... ebrary Launches New Purchase-Only Titles... etc. |
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June 11, 2012
Dan Tonkery |
BEA 2012: Libraries Still Draw the Short Stick Libraries do not have much to celebrate from Book Expo other than their copyright win at the Georgia State University and even that win may be short lived as the publishers have requested an injunction to stop certain types of usage of reserve material. |
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November 28, 2011 |
OverDrive Announces Ebook Device 'Test Drive' Program for Libraries The program includes device recommendations and guidelines for setup, maintenance, and support, as well as best practices for institutions that want to stock and lend ebook readers and tablets to patrons. |
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April 24, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest NetLibrary to Offer All Springer Science+Business Media Journals... LexisNexis Adds More Vertical and International Sources... Critical Mention Launches ClipSyndicate Service... etc. |
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
July 1, 2014
Brandi Scardilli |
Streaming Video in Public Libraries Several librarians shared their experiences with streaming video lending, so institutions thinking about implementing their own programs know what to expect. |
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June 13, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest EEVL Xtra Searches the Hidden Web... Experian Introduces BizInfo Online... LexisNexis Launches Taxonomy Program... |
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November 2006
Mick O'Leary |
Database Review: Google Book Search Has Far to Go Google Book Search is Google's grand project to create a universal full-text e-book library. Here are the details of how Book Search works. |
