Sentences with phrase «library systems»

Members include public libraries that belong to the regional library systems, academic libraries, and libraries of clinical medicine.

But library systems from New York to Los Angeles actually do lend e-books for free over the Internet, meaning you can download them in your home with your pants off.

In 1999, Commonwealth Libraries created a requirement that state - aided libraries and library systems must receive at least $ 5 in local financial support for each person in its service area to be eligible for state aid and participation in the Access Pennsylvania Statewide Library Card program.

It's not picking up all my library systems, even if I change the zip code or type in a city.

hoopla digital has partnerships with more than 1,500 public library systems across North America including Boston Public Library, Free Library of Philadelphia, Chicago Public Library, San Francisco Public Library, Los Angeles Public Library, and Edmonton Public Library.

We are fortunate to have strong public library systems, local independent bookstores, a healthy relationship with many publishers (cultivated over years of conference attendance), and a culture of sharing.

To date, around 1500 library systems have signed on to use Freading's lending platform, along with more than 850 publishers.

In 2015, the number of library systems hitting one million checkouts was 33 and two years this amount doubled.

The Cloud Library CloudLink service allows users from the UW and WYLD library systems to access the complete e-book collections from both systems and to check out available materials.

Öffentliche Bücherhallen in Hamburg, Büchereien Wien in Austria and Pestalozzi - Bibliothek in Zürich, Switzerland are three of the first library systems to offer the OverDrive platform to their communities in these countries.

The endowment should encourage library systems to learn lessons the from the all - digital library in San Antonio, Texas, and start branches like it in appropriate areas.

So perhaps Buffett, Gates and other billionaires can themselves finance a new national endowment to help fund two separate but tightly intertwined national digital library systems — one public, one academic.

I'll be talking about this more in a later post, but I'll say here for now that whenever I want to check out a book from either of my local library systems, I do it right in the Overdrive app on my Nook.

Start a national database of books with an isbn number with all relevant infomation so that a library tech or page could (in most cases) scan the book's barcode and have all appropriate descriptions, metatags, etc populate the individual library systems computer information sysytems.

If successful at the New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library — two of the country's largest library systems — Penguin said it could offer similar deals to libraries across the U.S., including school and university libraries.

I can access one of the largest library systems in the country, and the ebook system seems too onerous to me.

Of course, I hope that in time the DPLA will fork into two intertwined but separate national digital library systems — one academic, one public, with an advisory coordinating - committee.

However modern is the planned library, it is no replacement for two well - stocked and tightly intertwined national digital library systems, one public and one academic, serving up more books than Google and Amazon combined.

«Libraries need to be sure that whatever they spend money on» is material chosen that will engage their local communities, Singer said, and he cites a growing list of libraries and / or library systems formally joining the SELF - e program in these very early days so far, systems in:

Hoopla is signing up 15 — 30 library systems every month thousands of patrons are now enjoying e-books and comics.

Our growth has included public library systems in major markets such as Toronto, Seattle, Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

To do that, we need a vetted catalog of great ebooks of various genres, and we need to get that catalog into libraries, library systems, and consortia.

SESNOI think that there are a lot of library systems that are doing some really interesting work to try to innovate in the digital space.

They currently deal with over 1,600 public library systems across North America including Boston Public Library, Free Library of Philadelphia, Chicago Public Library, San Francisco Public Library, Los Angeles Public Library, and Edmonton... [Read more...]

Overdrive has just reported that 49 library systems in the U.S. and two other countries have set a new record for lending more than one million digital books in 2016.

Readers at five library systems borrowed more than 3 million digital books and seven libraries circulated more than 2 million eBooks and... [Read more...]

Hoopla digital has partnerships with more than 925 public library systems across North America including Austin Public Library, Los Angeles Public Library, Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County, Edmonton Public Library and Nashville Public Library.

The top 10 digital - circulating library systems for 2017:

I live in southern California, and unfortunately neither of the public library systems that I have access to (Los Angeles County and Ventura County) are participating in this program yet.

Kansas Library Express is funded by fees paid by the participating libraries, contributions from the seven regional library systems of cooperating libraries, and assistance from a federal grant through the State Library of Kansas.

As library systems grow, they're increasingly turning to technology to manage the logistics of getting materials to patrons.

· Easy to integrate into existing library systems, providing a gateway to all eContent and even the whole catalog

From most state, regional and national library industry trade shows, you can expect to have your book seen by several levels of library staff, including those who select books for their individual libraries and library systems, and those who might recommend your book to their patrons.

One way some libraries have pushed back against this is to form partnerships with neighboring library systems to cut the cost of e-books.

OverDrive released a statement today that demonstrated that some public library systems saw record circulation traffic on Christmas Day, a time frame when their doors weren't even open.

Not only have we invested in content in this consortium since 2005, but we have benefited from the continued investment and continued growth of the collection thanks to ongoing contributions of the 19 other member library systems.

OverDrive released data on library systems in four different states that all saw a wide - margin of patron use on Christmas Day.

I'm guessing the staff and technology to pull that off at scale is pretty daunting for all but the biggest library systems, though, but I'd love to see the AAP and / or Authors Guild make figuring it out a priority.

I know at least a couple library systems across the US from me ordered some of my own books, for example, because I've had readers tell me they found my books in their local library, liked the covers, and tried them out and are now fans who are going on to buy more of my work.

Tuesday he met with a group of public librarians through the Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA), a library group that includes the majority of the metro area's public libraries — including Hennepin County Library, one of the top library systems in the nation.

With some library systems, the Adobe Digital Editions library will display a banner on the cover of loaned books that indicates how many days you have left in the loan.

What's more, he could serve as a valued advisor to the endowment and the public and academic digital library systems that it helped finance.

This service registers the book with the Library of Congress Catalog, allowing public library systems to look up information on your book to identify the publisher, should they become interested in ordering the book.

-- Were at least open to the possibility of two national digital library systems in time, one public and one academic (no decision reached or expected at this point in the DPLA's evolution).

JL, not yet, but there is a third party developer that has an iPhone app for multiple library systems www.librarybooksapp.com.

Ocean State Libraries serves over 50 library systems in Rhode Island.

Here I'll document what library systems are known to carry my titles, and I will update this page with new library links as I become aware of them.

This literary world is made readily available to people of all lifestyles thanks in large part to our local library systems and platforms such as Overdrive Media.

If you have three books priced at $ 3.00, and all three library systems purchase it, you're looking at $ 9.00.

Readers at five library systems borrowed more than 3 million digital books and seven libraries circulated more than 2 million eBooks and audiobooks.