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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.   |
Information Today
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. |
Information Today
July 9, 2012 |
NoveList Select Gains New Features and Options New features improve the user experience, as well as offer new upgrade options, including book jackets, professional book reviews, sample excerpts, tables of contents, and more, from Content Cafe -- a database offered by Baker & Taylor. |
Information Today
April 3, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Elsevier Launches Drug Tracking Tool... EBSCO's NoveList Adds NextReads E-Mail Service... Thomson Gale Teams Up with Experian to Provide BizInfo Online... |
Information Today
June 17, 2010 |
ABC-CLIO eBooks Available Through Gale Virtual Reference Library "By adding these titles to Gale Virtual Reference Library, we are expanding our reach and are providing librarians, students, and researchers with greater access to our ebooks," says Tom Fitzgerald, ABC-CLIO's vice president of sales. |
Information Today
July 5, 2005
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Pilots Traditional Libraries into Web Services The library service has become more active on the Internet in an effort to make users aware of library holdings and offerings. |
Information Today
August 9, 2010 |
EBSCO Publishing and NoveList Debut a New Interface The updated interface is designed to help librarians and their patrons find their next great read. The redesign incorporated a variety of suggestions from readers' advisory experts and librarians. |
Information Today
July 8, 2013 |
Going Social: Top Apps for Best Recommended Reads The apps listed here are all free, whether you opt to find a title to enjoy on your own or want to join a reading community to share your thoughts about your favorite bestseller with a virtual book club. |
Information Today
January 24, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Top Vendors' Announcements Reflect Familiar Themes at ALA Midwinter Meeting Library funding issues took center stage at ALA Midwinter, along with topics from vendors such as continued commitment to library-only products and services, continued coverage of traditional content, and enhancements of existing products and services. |
Information Today
June 3, 2010
Barbara Quint |
Public Library Complete (PLC) from ebrary Offers Ebooks and More This includes includes more than 20,000 ebooks from leading publishers with more ebooks coming into the package every day-at no additional cost to subscribing libraries. |
Information Today
June 3, 2014
Brandi Scardilli |
Getting the Most Out of Discovery Service Here's an overview of the four major discovery services for libraries, including their newly implemented features. |
Information Today
April 17, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Factiva and ProQuest Expand Channel Partnership... New H.W. Wilson Fiction Catalog Available... EBSCO Offers Free Access to Teacher Reference Center... |
Information Today
December 8, 2011 |
Gale's Online Ebook Platform Gets a Facelift After extensive user analysis and market feedback, the interface has been overhauled with improved navigation and organization, and a vibrant and engaging display to draw in students, researchers, professionals, and general readers. |
Information Today
June 27, 2011 |
Goodreads Ratings and Reviews to be Added to NoveList Products The agreement leverages the content of Goodreads, the largest social network for readers, adding additional content to the popular readers' advisory service. |
Information Today
May 24, 2012 |
EBSCO Publishing Releases Nine New Audiobook Collections EBSCO Publishing released nine new audiobook collections in popular genres, providing public libraries with a quick and convenient way to begin or expand their audiobook offerings. |
Information Today
June 10, 2002
Barbara Quint |
QuestionPoint Marks New Era in Virtual Reference QuestionPoint stems from an arrangement between the Library of Congress' Public Service Collections Directorate and OCLC to provide libraries with access to a growing collaborative network of reference librarians in the U.S. and around the world. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2004
Marydee Ojala |
A New Presidential Face at Thomson Gale: Gordon T. Macomber The new publishing entity's president discusses his views on investing in technology to create a common platform, moving from traditional print to online delivery of information, expanding the virtual library and more. |
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. |
Information Today
November 6, 2014 |
LibraryThing for Libraries Boosts Discovery Books in a library's holdings will now offer recommendations for titles by the same author, similar authors and genres, and other specifications. |
Information Today
April 28, 2015
Barbie E. Keiser |
National Library Week 2015 Celebrates Unlimited Possibilities @ Your Library The American Library Association provides libraries with marketing collateral (e.g., posters, sample press releases, badges, and images for promotion on social media) and programming ideas. |
PC Magazine
February 17, 2004
Janet Rubenking |
Your Library Online With a library card and an internet connection, you can access a wealth of data from your public library. |
Information Today
March 19, 2012 |
Gale Aims to Transform the Online Library Experience With Gateways Designed to represent the unique way in which a community interacts with its public library, Gale Gateways bring together thematic products and services to provide an organized approach to help patrons find and use information. |
Information Today
February 11, 2013 |
E-resource Recommendations Added to NoveList Select The recommendations guide library patrons to relevant e-resources -- that may have been hidden or hard to find -- directly from catalog records. |
Information Today
March 15, 2010 |
Infobase Ebooks Now Available Through Gale Virtual Reference Library This allows libraries to provide access to popular ebooks from Facts On File and Ferguson Publishing along with more than 4,500 existing electronic reference titles, expanding the library's offerings while avoiding duplicated resources. |
Information Today
May 27, 2014 |
BiblioBoard and Library Journal Launch Ebook Discovery Service BiblioBoard worked with Library Journal to create SELF-e, an ebook discovery service that helps public library patrons find works by self-published authors. |
Information Today
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
February 3, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Update on Gale -- Mobile, Global, and In Context At the recent ALA Midwinter meeting, I caught up with Nader Qaimari, senior vice president, marketing, Cengage Learning, to talk about recent developments at Gale and get a peek at some forthcoming products. |
Information Today
October 6, 2011 |
Gale Launches Librareo--Free Web-Based Community for LIS Students Librareo is a free web-based community that supports the future of libraries and librarianship by providing students enrolled in Library and Information Studies programs with free access to the professional resources they'll rely upon following graduation. |
Searcher
August 2006
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Fear of Success There is terror that haunts the careers of so many librarians, the notion that some promotional effort, some marketing strategy designed to prove the library's worth will actually succeed and end up putting unendurable pressure on finite library resources. |
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. |
Information Today
October 1, 2013 |
Innovative Interfaces Enhances Ebook Discovery Librarians from any type of library can now access ebooks from 3M and local print and electronic collections, all from the Encore interface. |
Information Today
June 2, 2015
Brandi Scardilli |
Public Libraries Embrace Self-Publishing Services For authors who want to self-publish their books, the public library may be the best place to find services that can help. |
Information Today
December 17, 2009 |
Gale Announces New iPhone Application for Library Research AccessMyLibrary, an advocacy program, is a portal from the internet to libraries, allowing web searchers to find what they need by connecting them to their local libraries. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2011
Rose Holley |
Extending the Scope of Trove: Addition of E-resources Subscribed to By Australian Libraries Trove contains metadata for millions of freely accessible items, from more than 1,000 contributing institutions. The focus is on Australia and Australians. |
Information Today
April 10, 2008 |
WilsonWeb Adds Short Story Index Retrospective: 1915--1983 The Short Story Index Retrospective: 1915-1983 is a new tool to help users find short stories from among more than 150,000 published in the U.S., England, and Canada dating from the 1830s to the 1980s. |
Information Today
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
February 4, 2013 |
EBSCO Releases eBook Public Library Collection eBook Public Library Collection includes more than 25,000 general reference ebook titles in a variety of subjects and topics including social sciences, language and literature, and science and technology. |
Information Today
April 25, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Simon & Schuster Joins `Big 6' in Moving Ebooks Into Libraries On April 15, 2013, Simon & Schuster became the last of the "Big Six" (now actually five with the merger of Random House and Penguin) publishers to dip their toes into the waters of ebook sales to libraries. |
Information Today
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. |
D-Lib
February 2003
Jeffrey T. Penka |
The Technological Challenges of Digital Reference: An Overview This discussion of technological challenges associated with digital reference focuses on challenges libraries face in establishing and supporting an efficient, patron-focused digital reference service, based on library values. |
Information Today
October 13, 2003
Barbara Quint |
RLG's Union Catalog Available on the Open Web Research Libraries Group, builder of one of the world's largest union catalogs of merged library holdings, has opened a Web-based version of its file to all users of the Web. |
InternetNews
August 9, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Google Book Project Signs UC Pact Google's effort to index library books turned another page with the addition of the University of California to its Print Library Project. |
Searcher
May 2012
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Percentages The arrival of ebooks has left pbooks the last man standing when it comes to library collections. Now books are going the way of full-text journals and reference works. A library's primary collection is no longer primarily print. |
D-Lib
June 2008
Monnich & Spiering |
Adding Value to the Library Catalog by Implementing a Recommendation System Recommender systems are useful tools for adding a reference component to a library catalog, and they help develop library catalogs that serve as customer-oriented portals, deploying Web 2.0 technology. |
ONLINE
November 2000
Mick O'Leary |
Grading the Library Portals The ideal library portal will have the most thorough coverage possible in several areas of the library profession for all types of libraries... |
Information Today
June 25, 2012 |
Penguin Group Launches Library Lending Pilot Program Penguin Group, The New York Public Library, and 3M Library Systems announced a pilot project that will make Penguin eBooks available to patrons of both The New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library. |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching |
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
September 30, 2002
Barbara Quint |
Gale Launches E-Books with OCLC's netLibrary Gale Group, a business unit of Thomson Corp., has launched an e-book program that will make a large collection of its reference material available to online library patrons through netLibrary. |
Information Today
December 20, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project Google has launched a program with a number of research libraries which aims at ultimately scanning all the books in their collections. Could this mark the beginning of the end of brick-and-mortar libraries? |
