(16 December 2013) These two short videos look at the advantages of using eBooks from the perspective of the library and academic staff. The announcement with a link to the videos is here.
(12 December 2013) The British Library has released over a million images onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books digitised by Microsoft who then generously gifted the scanned images to the BL, allowing them to be released into the Public Domain.…
(10 December 2013, Blacksburg, VA) VTLS has added eBook lending from 3M Cloud Library into the new versions of both Chamo Discovery and the MozGo Mobile App. Patrons can search through the library’s collection of 3M eBooks, check them out or place holds, download them to their devices and check the status of their eBooks…
(3 December 2013) The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV) have digitized and made available online some of the world’s most unique and important Bibles and biblical texts from their collections, as the start of a major digitization initiative undertaken by the two institutions. The digitized texts can be…
(4 December 2013) The PublishingPerspectives website has a feature by Adam Critchley on the eBook culture in Taiwan. Despite the Taiwanese appetite for new technology and the country being one of the world’s largest hi-tech manufacturing centers, enthusiasm for the ebook is less than lukewarm. Read the article here: http://publishingperspectives.com/2013/12/in-taiwan-reading-is-cool-but-lukewarm-on-ebooks/
(21 November 2013, New York) LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced two new developments supporting the need for more access to legal eBooks for law students and professors: an agreement with Follett Higher Education Group, Inc. and launch of LexisNexis® Digital Library – Professor Review Copies. The story is here.
(20 November 2013) Globalization Partners International (GPI), a provider of comprehensive document, software and website translation services announced today that it has launched a comprehensive eBook translation and desktop publishing service. The new service will allow eBook publishers and companies who have developed eBooks to get them translated and correctly formatted for a variety of…
HathiTrust has a new state-of-the-art bibliographic management system for its 11-million volume digital repository. The new system, called Zephir, is developed and managed by the California Digital Library, and represents the first distributed development of a major repository component outside the University of Michigan. “The release of Zephir embodies the deep collaboration that is at…
(Chicago, 5 November 2013) — ALA TechSource has announced the premiere issue of eContent Quarterly, a new digital journal offering practical, user-driven solutions and ideas for curating, developing, integrating and managing content in rapidly changing digital library environments. Subscriptions are available for purchase at the ALA Store. Among the topics covered in Volume 1, Issue…
(4 November 2013) The Education Bureau has received 57 applications for the development of eTextbooks under its eTextbook market development scheme’s second phase. Twenty applications cover mathematics, eight English language, and five Chinese language. Application results are expected to be available in late December 2013. The remaining 24 applications cover computer literacy, Putonghua, science, history, geography,…
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