Not exact matches
China
opened the doors of its new, futuristic
library earlier this
month.
Missy has a 9 -
month old friend from
library who is the happy result of an
open adoption.
Hart said he thought the town should hire a PR firm on a
month - to -
month basis, and he did not know what services the company would provide after the
library / community center
opens.
The Kiwanis center was demolished in 2016, and the Burchfield building closed for safety reasons in January, 2017, seven
months after the Town Board approved the first bond resolution for the 30,600 square feet of
library, cafe,
open space and office space.
By the end of the decade,
library staff hope to add up to five million more entries to the National Digital
Library opened this
month.
More than eight
months after BiblioTech
opened, staffers are holding frequent in -
library events, especially story times for kids, and are not just parking patrons in front of the computers.
Earlier this
month, Sony announced that it was converting its entire content
library to the EPUB format to make its eBook store compatible with multiple devices and its Reader devices
open to multiple sources for content.
Bexar County
opened up the first all digital
library a few
months ago.
It had its grand
opening just last
month, according to the
library's web page, with over 250 attendees marking the occasion.
The brain child of Dream Industries, Bookmate offers its subscribers
open access to its entire
library of no less than 225,000 books for a mere $ 5 per
month.
Last
month Hoopla Digital expanded their catalog of ebooks and audiobooks that are available for free through public
libraries by signing a deal with
Open Road Integrated Media.
Libraries have played an important role in that growth,
opening their doors to host events throughout the
month to help writers hone their craft.
Issues of Library Technology Reports become
open access one year after publication and issues of Smart
Libraries Newsletter become
open access six
months after publication.
Public
libraries were lending eBooks and subscription eBook
libraries were
opening for business — Oyster in September 2013, Scribd the following
month and Amazon's Kindle Unlimited in July 2014.
A new front has recently
opened over Amazon's new Kindle lending
library, which allows members of the website's loyalty program known as Prime to borrow a book every
month for free.
Setting aside journal pricing controversies and discrepancies for the moment, it may be time for research
libraries to assert their collective willingness to underwrite the costs of immediate and universal
open access, for the same price as they are now paying for either twelve
months or a lifetime - plus of exclusive journal access.