Sentences with phrase «e-books out of a collection»
Among the library staff who responded to our questionnaire, about half said that their library pays for patron access to e-books out of a collection budget.
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This will be tremendously useful for people who have a large PDF and e-book collection and find themselves running out of internal memory.
Borders CEO Mike Edwards is all too aware of the fact and that's the reason for doling out the free e-books along with the Borders apps so that along with the free software for reading books, users also have a nice collection of books to start off right away.
Penguin and Amazon are in dispute over the terms of sale and lending for Penguin titles, but Penguin's response has been to order Amazon to lock down the ebooks that libraries acquired — using their precious and dwindling collections budgets — so that patrons can no longer check them out (Update: Amazon says Penguin and Overdrive, the e-book lending service, took the action without Amazon's involvement.
The new Follett Digital Reader app will allow students to check out books to their mobile devices from the Follett SHelf, a collection of e-books that the library can build.
On a typical day in early December 2011, about 80 % to 85 % of the system's e-books are checked out, Elizabeth Rhodes, the collection services coordinator for the Fairfax library system, was quoted as saying.