Not exact matches
With a growing
library of flicks like Bright and Mudbound (and
First They Came for My Father and The Meyerowitz Stories and Okja and 1922 and a whole range of other movies) combined with the standup specials pouring forth from the streaming service and a hot new show once every couple months — to say nothing of the increasingly unimportant back
catalog of Hollywood titles — it's hard to think of a better value for your dollar than the eleven bucks Netflix's streaming service runs you each month.
Digital content provider OverDrive made a monumental announcement today in saying that Macmillan has made its entire ebook
catalog available for the
first time for lending through OverDrive's school
library partners.
The
first is Metadata API — which allows access
catalog information such as title, author, description and title samples.The second is the Availability API — which provides unique title - availability information from
library holdings including number of units or copies, units available for lending, number of copies on hold, etc..
When you're browsing books on Amazon, it will check your
library's
catalog to let you know if the book is available (check
first to make sure your
library is supported — they support 3200).
Now, we need to somehow explain that while most of our reference collection lives on the
first floor of the
library, some of it is online and accessible through the
catalog if you know the specific title of the work (since it's not like you could do a search for Roald Dahl in the
catalog and have the Children's Literature Review pop up).
It's not the
first vendor to sell a shit product to
libraries, of course — ask anyone about their experience with digital
catalog vendors like SirsiDynix.
The MyiLibrary platform addresses two needs for
libraries:
first, it maintains a
catalog of titles that rivals those of some bookstores, adding nearly 5,000 new books each month; second, it helps librarians shed the archaic search systems they've used for decades in favor of selected content from publishers.
Sideloading was a big activity for me as I ran my purchased books through calibre
first so that I could have a more robust
catalog of my personal
library.
Libraries are able to order three months or more pre-publication, and users expect that a new book will be in the
catalog three months or so before it comes out, and people who want to read it
first (or second, or twenty third) place holds on it.
But in the strange world of
libraries and
cataloging, only the
first letter of the book's title within the CIP block is capitalized, along with any proper nouns.
Macmillan announced last week that it is adding its frontlist titles to its backlist pilot for public
libraries, making its complete ebook
catalog available for the
first time.
If
libraries don't own ebooks available through their
catalog, then they forego the right of
first sale, right?
This database of more than 350,000
first chapter excerpts of current books is licensed for use in the online
catalogs of booksellers, distributors,
libraries, and bibliographic information sources worldwide.
In New Orleans, Boopsie demonstrated the expanded features of its Optimum Package, including other exciting
firsts: one - click access to OverDrive e-book collections via the
library's mobile
catalog; and BookLookMobile, a barcode - scanning tool that informs patrons whether the book is available at their local
library and allows them to request or place a hold on the title.
Taught
first - time visitors how to browse the
library catalog by using the OPAC (Online Public Access C
catalog by using the OPAC (Online Public Access
CatalogCatalog)