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Information Today
July 2, 2013 |
Polaris Library Systems Upgrades Software With 100 Enhancements Polaris 4.1 improves patron services, circulation, cataloging, and acquisitions.   |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2004
Nancy O'Neill |
Open WorldCat Pilot: A User's Perspective Ultimately even people who don't often use libraries may come to consider libraries as a first source of information. If you believe in libraries, as OCLC obviously does, what's not to love about Open WorldCat? |
Information Today
October 6, 2015
Brandi Scardilli |
Four Discovery Services to Watch It's time for a look at some tools that may not be as well-known as the previously covered EBSCO Discovery Service, Primo, Summon, and WorldCat Discovery Services. |
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
September 17, 2015 |
Boopsie Reviews Its 2Q 2015 Accomplishments Boopsie for Libraries shared its most recent milestones: It has signed 12 new library clients in multiple library markets. |
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. |
Macworld
March 10, 2005
Mathew Honan |
Delicious Library 1.0 Have a large library of books, videotapes, music? Designed for the Mac, this easy, fun library software from Delicious Monster will let you catalog it all. |
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
July 14, 2008 |
AquaBrowser Adds Social Networking Tools New features boost the existing AquaBrowser social networking experience and are designed to create a true global community for library users. |
Information Today
June 28, 2010
Barbara Quint |
Knock, Knock! OCLC at the Door With WorldCat Direct OCLC, the library vendor run by librarians, continues to push its services and the services of the libraries it serves into a more demanding user environment. |
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
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, 2015
Brandi Scardilli |
Boopsie Improves Library Visibility in the Mobile Space Boopsie's goal is to help libraries "make more services more accessible to more members" -- thereby acquiring new users and increasing circulation -- through the use of a custom-branded, native mobile app |
Information Today
March 12, 2012 |
3M Cloud Library Announces Integration With Polaris ILS The 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Service will now be integrated with the Polaris Integrated Library System, allowing patrons at participating libraries to discover both physical and digital collections from wherever they are browsing. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2013
Knight et al. |
Automating Library Stock Ordering from Reading Lists This paper discusses taking data from the reading list system, and other library data sources, and using it in an automated system to make book purchasing suggestions to ease this task for library staff. |
Information Today
April 21, 2011 |
Export Your LibraryThing Library as MARC Records LibraryThing has just released a feature that will allow users to export their LibraryThing library as MARC (USMARC, UTF-8) records. Users will find the Export as MARC option now on the Import/Export page, accessible via the "More" tab when they are logged in. |
Information Today
November 21, 2013 |
Facebook App Enables Library OPAC Searches Syndetic Solutions, ProQuest's OPAC and discovery layer enrichment tool, introduced a free Facebook app for its library subscribers. |
Information Today
August 7, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Amazon Library Processing Prepares Books for Library Shelves Now libraries can order books and other media, such as CDs and DVDs, from Amazon and receive the material ready to go from box to shelf. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2011
Rose Holley |
Resource Sharing in Australia: Find and Get in Trove - Making "Getting" Better Trove is the Australian discovery service focusing on Australia and Australians, launched at the end of 2009. It has been created and is managed by the National Library of Australia. |
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. |
Information Today
June 10, 2014 |
TLC Debuts RDA Conversion Tool Libraries can use RDAExpress to convert their entire database or send records individually for conversion using the online conversion dashboard. |
Information Today
November 8, 2012 |
Ex Libris Releases Voyager 8.2 The new version of Voyager was tested by numerous institutions. Their feedback contributed to refining the integrated library system software. |
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
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 20, 2008
Michael LoPresti |
Google Books Reaches Out With New API Google announced the release of a new application programming interface (API) that enables external websites to connect directly to any of the texts in the Google Book Search index. |
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. |
D-Lib
February 2007
Coyle & Hillmann |
Resource Description and Access (RDA): Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century A rearrangement of the cataloging rules is not the right starting point for libraries. The library catalog has undergone considerable change from a simple finding list to an integrated database that serves both library management and user access functions. |
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
May 2, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Book Recommendation Services With the increased interest in ebooks and the phenomenal sales of ereaders, it's worth knowing about some other very helpful sources for book recommendations. |
Information Today
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." |
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
January 27, 2015 |
Gale Introduces New Apps for Analytics on Demand Gale, part of Cengage Learning, added three apps to Analytics on Demand, its Big Data analytics solution for public libraries. |
Information Today
October 9, 2014 |
3M Cloud Library Partners With NOOK for Library Lending U.S. libraries can purchase GlowLight e-readers directly from Barnes & Noble to loan to their patrons and offer access to 3M Cloud Library titles on the devices. |
Information Today
November 22, 2010 |
SirsiDynix Launches BookMyne 2.0 iPhone Application BookMyne features mobile access to in-demand library information, holdings, and services. |
Information Today
September 29, 2015 |
TLC Implements Bar Code Scanning in CARL-Connect Products The Library Corp. introduced 2D bar code scanning in CARL*Connect to help library staffers capture new patrons' driver's licenses or ID cards and store their information in the library's database. |
Information Today
October 30, 2000
Barbara Quint |
With OCLC's New Strategy, Is the Earth's Largest Library in Sight? OCLC, the largest library online cooperative, is setting a new strategy that could move it as well as public and academic libraries across the country and the world into an emerging, unified, virtual library service on the Web... |
Information Today
October 27, 2003
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Project Opens WorldCat Records to Google OCLC has announced to its library members that it will begin testing the opening of WorldCat records to Google access. The project will extract a 2 million-record subset consisting of the most populare and widely-available books from the more than 53 million records in the database. |
Information Today
April 23, 2007
Barbara Quint |
OCLC's WorldCat Local: A Promising Development for Library Patrons All librarians face the challenge of locating copies of hard-to-find books for patrons. If successful, this new pilot project could supply librarians everywhere with an invaluable service. |
Information Today
June 11, 2015 |
Ratings and Reviews Come to Boopsie Mobile App Boopsie for Libraries will add rating and reviewing capabilities to its mobile platform. |
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. |
Information Today
January 24, 2008
Barbara Quint |
"Hey, Buddy! Want to Read A Good Book?" Cengage Gale's Books & Authors Despite the rise of recommendation engines on every online bookstore site, readers' advisory services still persist as a basic function of public library reference operations. |
Information Today
September 24, 2009 |
SirsiDynix Announces General Availability of Enterprise 3.0 Enterprise 3.0 offers users a single search well to discover all resources the library makes available. Those resources might include one or more library catalogs, digital collections, selected websites, and federated resources. |
D-Lib
October 2001
Brewster Kahle |
Public Access to Digital Material The goal of universal access to our cultural heritage is within our grasp. With current digital technology we can build comprehensive collections, and with digital networks we can make these available to students and scholars all over the world... |
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
March 17, 2015 |
TLC Displays Reading Levels in Its ILS Products The Library Corp. added Reading Level Integration to its Library*Solution and Library*Solution for Schools. |
D-Lib
April 2006
Lorcan Dempsey |
Libraries and the Long Tail: Some Thoughts about Libraries in a Network Age Libraries collectively manage a long tail of research, learning and cultural materials. However, we need to do more work to make sure that this long tail is directly available to improve the work and lives of our users. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2011
Gerolimos & Konsta |
Services for Academic Libraries in the New Era The aim of this paper is twofold. The primary focus is to research and document the integration of services based on the web into the framework of academic libraries. |
Information Today
June 27, 2005
Irene McDermott |
New 1stReads System Enables Book Donations to Libraries The online service allows libraries to ask for donations based on desired titles. Whoever donates towards a book gets to check it out first. |
Information Today
July 17, 2014 |
Baker & Taylor Integrates Axis 360 API With Polaris ILS This partnership is designed to simplify patrons' discovery experience and improve digital library administration. |
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. |
