An August 2011 survey of 2,42111 adults by Library Journal found «that over 50 % of
all library users report purchasing books by an author they were introduced to in the library,» according to Rebecca Miller, Library Journal's executive editor.
Just like the publishers are ignoring the statistics that «50 % of
all library users report purchasing books by an author they were introduced to in the library».
Not exact matches
While the
User Interface and asset
library are important, one of your top priorities should be the
reporting capabilities.
The first thing I saw when I logged into Twitter this morning was a Tweet about this article, which
reports about Amazon wiping the entire
library of a
user without explanation or recourse — this would be after they swore they wouldn't do so without being ordered to do so by a court following the completely ironic debacle of -LSB-...]
The first thing I saw when I logged into Twitter this morning was a Tweet about this article, which
reports about Amazon wiping the entire
library of a
user without explanation or recourse — this would be after they swore they wouldn't do so without being ordered to do so by a court following the completely ironic debacle of them wiping copies of 1984 in 2009.
Many
library resources are particularly valued by those who are unemployed, retired, or searching for a job, as well as those living with a disability and internet
users who lack home internet access,» according to the
report.
State of Victoria public
libraries report 298,809 eBook downloads in 2011/12 and 497,045 downloads in 2012/13 (+66 %)
Users of the State Library of Western Australia downloaded 9,130 eBooks in January 2013 and 21,564 eBooks in January 2014 (+136 %).
OCLC's Perceptions of
Libraries 2010
report shows that
users don't start their information searches on
library websites.
As a result, there have been numerous
reports of
users literally sitting at the computers and masturbating to the images they're accessing, as well as
reports that women and children in the
library have been accosted.
For
libraries, eResource Central enables cost savings and simplifies the process of delivering content from multiple sources and formats to
users by managing licensing and access rights; automatically updating metadata for
library e-resources; integrating e-resource usage into circulation
reporting; and managing electronic content acquisition and delivery.
For
libraries and
library staff, eResource Central enables cost savings and simplifies the process of delivering content of disparate sources and formats to
users by managing licensing and access rights; maintaining MARC records and metadata for
library e-resources; integrating e-resource usage into circulation
reporting; and managing electronic content acquisition and creation.
The LJ
report said rectifying such missed service opportunities with the occasional
user is an important step in helping to turn those
users into Power Patrons,
users who visit the
library at least once a week.
The
report, «Mobile Devices, Mobile Content, and
Library Apps,» a part of LJ's ongoing Patron Profiles series, points out that even though digital
users — defined as a patron who uses a smartphone, ereader, or tablet — remain a minority, they are, nonetheless, more active than the general patron not only in digital services but also «in virtually every metric of
library activity.»
The
report recommends
libraries capitalize on this borrowing pattern to «turn them on to the whole collection» and to remember that, as with ebook
users, «the mobile device ownership and digital media behavior of the 21 — 40 age group should inform
libraries in planning their long - term mobile strategy.»
Pawlowski said that she was told that all the
reporting features tied to OverDrive's next generation
user interface will be up no later than a few months from now, and she was confident that OverDrive will respond to what
libraries need.
«Almost nine in ten public
libraries currently offer ebooks to their
users, and 35 percent of those that don't are in the process of adding them,» the 100 - page
report notes.
These responses echo the findings of OCLC's 2010
report, which found that 28 % of
library users asked for research assistance at the
library in 2010, down from 39 % in 2005.37 While half of the respondents in that survey said that the top purpose of the
library was to «provide information,» the
report found that search engines are the starting point of information queries for 84 % of respondents and none started at a
library website.
While this offers a legitimate way of playing PlayStation 3 exclusive releases without the PS3 console itself, many
users who have accessed the PS Now
library on PC often
report dodgy performance.
This is a comment coming from the
library and electronic records management world where those of us formally trained in university programs but not in IT pure world, but have hands - on experience with some coding, applications design including
report and screen
user designs from systems perspective:
After last week's fuss about iTunes
reporting back to Apple about
users music
libraries (see: The Canadian Privacy Law Blog: Is iTunes
reporting your listening back to the mothership?)
Update 5/16/17: A Bloomberg
report claims that Google will update its popular Photos app to include a feature that lets
users easily create physical coffee table books from photos in their
library.
Instead of just asking Google to keep the blobs as Android's default emoji
library as many have, the
report asks Google to give
users the option to change it.
Over the past couple of days, MacRumors has received several
reports from
users who have been able to upload music
libraries of greater than 25,000 tracks to iTunes Match or Apple Music's similar scan - and - match feature, and Macworld's iTunes expert Kirk McElhearn has also noted a number of
reports on his personal blog.Just ahead of the launch of Apple Music in late June, Eddy Cue revealed on Twitter that Apple was working to raise the matching limit from 25,000 tracks to 100,000 for iOS 9, but the increase did not occur in September when iOS 9 debuted.MacRumors checked with Cue back in October for an update, and he indicated Apple was «definitely working on it» with the expectation the increase would go live «before the end of the year.
A dynamic - link
library file was recently dug up from the latest Windows 10 developer build, carrying the name «gamemode.dll,» UberGizmo
reports, citing Twitter
user WalkingCat.