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June 23, 2015 |
e-Libro Grows Its Premium Collection e-Libro added 10,000 ebooks to its premium offering from Spanish-language publishers.   |
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April 28, 2015 |
Gale Provides Literacy Resource for Young Library Patrons Miss Humblebee's Academy is designed to help 3- to 6-year-old patrons build foundational literacy skills. |
Information Today
June 18, 2012 |
Credo Reference Launches Literati Public Literati Public, developed in close partnership with public librarians, is a highly customizable solution that promotes the mission of public libraries by combining Credo's content with newly developed platform technology. |
D-Lib
Bob Bolick |
Ebook Literacy The real excitement will begin when ebooks are fully embedded in the Web or in pre-configured digital libraries, because the literacy of browsing, choosing, and searching will bring that other literacy -- the literacy of the book -- under the pressure of immediate contextuality... |
Information Today
April 17, 2008 |
ALA Releases `The State of America's Libraries' Report Libraries of all kinds continue to be "engines of learning, literacy, and economic development in communities nationwide." |
Information Today
April 12, 2012 |
More Than 30,000 Spanish Language Titles in eBooks Kindle en Espanol Amazon.com, Inc. has a new Spanish-language ebook store within the Amazon.com Kindle Store entitled, "eBooks Kindle en Espanol." |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2006
Pam Black |
Adviser Pulse: Life Insurance for Hispanics A new study suggests that Hispanics show different tendencies when considering the purchase of life insurance. |
Information Today
June 27, 2013 |
Springer Introduces French and Italian Ebook Collections There are about 330 ebooks in the three French collections and more than 400 titles in the two Italian collections, all published in 2005 or later. |
Entrepreneur
December 2005
Mark Henricks |
Como Se Dice? Break down the language barrier between you and your employees. |
Information Today
March 28, 2013 |
EveryoneOn Launches to Promote Digital Literacy March 21, 2013 marked the launch of Everyone On -- a national campaign to promote the importance of digital literacy skills and increase access to computer and internet training. |
Information Today
July 29, 2014 |
ALA Survey Reveals Statistics on Technology in Libraries The survey found that almost 100% of U.S. public libraries provide workforce development training programs, online resources for finding jobs, and other technology skills training. |
The Motley Fool
February 23, 2011
Selena Maranjian |
How Going Bilingual Greatly Benefits These Companies Businesses can reap big profits by courting Spanish-speaking consumers in person and on the web. |
Information Today
May 19, 2015 |
hoopla Begins Lending Ebooks and E-Comics There are currently more than 5,000 ebooks available and nearly 600 e-comics. |
PC Magazine
October 19, 2011
Jill Duffy |
Apple's Siri Shuns 35 Million Americans -- Are You One? Siri carries out simple tasks for you when you speak to it, but only if you're an English speaker in the United States. |
Information Today
October 27, 2015 |
Odilo Broadens Spain's Ebook Lending Program Libraries can use Odilo to purchase local content, magazines, movies, music, newspapers, and more. |
Information Today
July 22, 2014 |
OCLC Gets Grant to Promote Early Literacy in Public Libraries OCLC's project will increase libraries' awareness of the new service model and help library staff members and administrators support their early literacy services. |
AskMen.com
Justin Becker |
How To: Learn The Basics Of Spanish Here's a quick tutorial on the basics of Spanish, especially useful for travel. |
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. |
Job Journal
July 17, 2005
Julia Hollister |
Three Who Learned the Hard Way - on the Job These three immigrants overcame significant obstacles on their way to better careers... There are several resources, both online and offline, that will let you capitalize on bilingual skills. |
Search Engine Watch
March 2, 2011
Christian Arno |
5 Money-Saving Strategies for Localized Websites How microsites, subdomains, duplication, post-edited machine translation, and competing in foreign markets will increase your ROI and save you more money. |
Information Today
August 13, 2012 |
ALA Releases Report on Ebook Business Models for Public Libraries The report, which was created by the ALA Digital Content and Libraries Working Group, suggests opportunities for publishers to showcase content through public libraries. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2009 |
Matematicas by EducationCity.com EducationCity.com has launched Matematicas, the Spanish-language version of its e-learning resource for math, made especially for students whose primary language is Spanish. |
Information Today
April 9, 2015 |
Gale and EveryLibrary Raise Awareness of Library Resources Gale and EveryLibrary partnered for a media campaign designed to increase awareness of libraries' importance in economic development and their role in the discovery of information. |
Information Today
June 2, 2015 |
3M Cloud Library Provides Enhancements for Patrons and Librarians They will offer a redesigned web patron interface for easier browsing and the ability for librarians to reclassify ebooks' age ranges. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2005
Alex Roman |
Special Product Focus: ESL and Foreign Language Software An overview of language software products for students: EazySpeak, Professor Toto Educational Kit, SUBE: Language Learning Thru Art, Music and Games, Before You Know It Educator Edition and English Discoveries. |
Information Today
January 30, 2014 |
Credo Facilitates Information Literacy Instruction Credo launched a cloud-based Information Literacy Course Module designed to help libraries and academic institutions teach formalized, standards-driven information literacy courses. |
Information Today
March 12, 2015 |
OverDrive Provides Children's Ebooks to Libraries and Schools OverDrive became the first digital content provider to release narrated and fixed-layout ebooks for libraries and schools in the U.S. |
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. |
Wired
June 23, 2008
Michael Erard |
How English Is Evolving Into a Language We May Not Even Understand Given the number of people involved, Chinese English is destined to take on a life of its own. |
Reason
July 2006
Nick Gillespie |
Rant: The Decline of the English Speaking Peoples America's national language is under siege. Thank you, Rep. Tom Tancredo from the suspiciously Spanish-named state of Colorado for having the courage to introduce a constitutional amendment that would declare English "the official language of the United States." |
ONLINE
Nov./Dec. 2006
Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage - Perspectives, Perceptions, and Periscopes Librarians share the same perspective when naming their type of library. Perceptions of libraries, however, differ, depending on perspective. |
Information Today
April 4, 2013 |
New ACRL White Paper: 'Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy' This white paper explores and articulates three intersections among scholarly communication and information literacy. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2007 |
LAS Links Report Pack by CTB-McGraw-Hill CTB/McGraw-Hill has released a new English- and Spanish-language assessment reporting system, LAS Links Report Pack. |
Information Today
January 31, 2011 |
Aldiko Introduces Aldiko BookReader 2.0 The new version of the company's eReader software for Android devices adds support for ePub and PDF formats, support for Adobe Content Server 4 DRM, support for ebooks from public libraries, a marketplace, and redesigned user interface. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2000 |
Linking to Literacy Lessons A new free Web service from Follett Software Company, www.pathwaysmodel.com, provides teachers and librarians with direct links to an annotated list of Web sites that a group of educators discovered to aid in the teaching of literacy skills... |
Information Today
July 1, 2014
Nancy K. Herther |
Libraries Continue to Battle for Fair Access to Ebooks Academic and special libraries have found comparatively fewer problems in gaining access to ebooks for their clients than school and public libraries. |
Information Today
February 24, 2011 |
EBSCO Publishing Releases 24 New Ebook Subject Sets The subject sets are part of a rapidly growing collection of eBooks that are offered in convenient collections grouped by subject matter. |
Information Today
October 15, 2013 |
EBSCO Introduces 15 New Ebook Subject Sets These sets of titles from leading publishers are designed to simplify collection development by helping librarians start or enhance their ebook programs with subject-specific ebooks. |
Information Today
April 15, 2014 |
Random House Ebooks Now Available From EBSCO EBSCO Information Services now offers more than 30,000 frontlist and popular backlist ebooks from Random House on its EBSCO eBooks and Audiobooks platform. |
Information Today
January 19, 2012 |
OverDrive Adds Non-English Ebooks to Library Catalog OverDrive's online catalog, Content Reserve, which contains digital books in more than 50 languages, recently added popular and bestselling titles in Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Italian, and Turkish, with thousands of Spanish ebooks coming soon. |
Information Today
September 17, 2013
Barbara Brynko |
What's Trending in Ebooks The good news is that ebooks are holding their own and still commanding a sizable portion of the publishing pie. Consumer demand for ebooks is being heard in all market segments, including the library space. |
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Sony Announces Inaugural Participants in Reader Library Program The program will provide participating libraries with in-house training on digital reading devices, educational materials to help librarians and patrons learn more about ebooks, and digital reading devices for library staff use and patron demonstrations. |
Nursing Management
November 2011
Mary Ann Remshardt |
The Impact of Patient Literacy on Healthcare Practices With regard to patient teaching, how can healthcare personnel be certain that patients understand concepts basic to informed consent, hospital safety, dietary restrictions, and prescription information? |
Information Today
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. |
The Motley Fool
December 5, 2006
Mary Dalrymple |
Financial Education, Government Style The government could do a better job teaching financial literacy. Fortunately, many other resources are meeting the need. |
Information Today
July 9, 2012
Paula J. Hane |
The Challenging Landscape of Ebooks in Libraries The overall growth in digital content of all kinds, and in particular, the growing importance and acceptance of ebooks, has clearly presented great opportunities for libraries, as well as plenty of challenges. |
Information Today
October 20, 2015 |
Boopsie Caters to Small and Rural Libraries Boopsie for Libraries released Express, a feature set for its mobile app specifically for small and rural public libraries serving less than 25,000 patrons. |
The Motley Fool
January 14, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Learn a Language, Get a Job Multilingual workers are in demand. |
Information Today
March 8, 2010 |
Two New Ebook Surveys Highlight Interesting Trends HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, has released the full results of a fall 2009 survey of librarians on their attitudes and practices related to ebooks |
Information Today
August 5, 2014 |
Hachette Ebooks Now Available From EBSCO Hachette Book Group agreed to offer its popular fiction and nonfiction ebooks via EBSCO eBooks and Audiobooks. |
