Sentences with phrase «many library vendors»

They will want to know which service it is available from, since they will definitely have preferences (for particular business pricing or access models; or for usage rights restrictions); and will have accounts with some library vendors and not with others.

Print - on - demand or e-only titles are only accepted for consideration if the item is readily available through standard library vendors (such as Baker & Taylor, Ingram, Overdrive, etc.).

We would like to highlight special projects by our library vendor donors that would not have been possible without their vision:

Then make sure you have your book accessible to vendors: libraries (public and school) buy for their collections from library suppliers and library vendor catalogues.

So right off the bat, if your book isn't in a library vendor catalog, you are behind the eight ball.

The good news is that because my husband works for a library vendor, I discovered at ALA Midwinter I can ship the ARCs I pick up back home with their booth.

Mirela Roncevic is a professional editor, writer, content developer, and consultant to publishers, libraries, book distributors and library vendors.

Since the beginning of 2013, four major library vendors have announced the launch of new or expanded streaming services that will enable patrons to view movies and television shows at their library or at home using computers, tablets, smart TVs, or any device equipped with a web browser.

On a late rainy Monday afternoon at the end of the American Library Association's Midwinter meeting, 39 leading librarians and library vendors gathered for about 90 minutes around a horseshoe - arrangement of tables on the fourth floor of the Seattle Public Library to discuss how to create a new lending experience.

The library world was thrilled at the September 21 announcement that library vendor OverDrive had enabled its library customers to loan the ebooks they'd licensed from OverDrive to patrons with Kindle e-readers — provided that the ebooks were in Kindle - maker Amazon's sales inventory.

So right off the bat, if your book isn't in a library vendor catalog, you are behind the curve ball.

I would also add the work done by the Canadian Association of Law Libraries Vendor Liaison Committee.

Our clientele deserve no less than the same clear - eyed appraisal that we would use with any library vendor.

Not exact matches

Note that this is an average number across all the different modalities of learning you may have, and does not include third party content acquired from companies such as library builders or content you have outsourced to an external vendor.

Build on that foundation with regular training, libraries of useful content and short, actionable courses that help your vendors build their businesses.

If you choose not to follow the route of in - house staff, ask the LMS vendor for a list of online training courses in their library.

I can't picture a world in which libraries no longer work with commercial vendors for automation.

OverDrive, the biggest vendor of e-books for libraries, gets no love in this article.

It does not sell the readers itself, but does guide libraries to vendors.

Since then, library ebooks have been provided through siloed, vertically integrated systems in which users can discover and borrow books from a given vendor only in that vendor's website and apps.

To date, dozens of OverDrive partners — including ILS vendors, mobile app makers, library partners and others — have expressed interest in the new tools.

Whatever the real number clearly Amazon remains the leading ebook vendor and its continuing refusal to support library lending locks libraries out of the most popular format from the vendor with the best title selection and the lowest prices.

Where new and independent presses often launch their newest titles, and a jumping - off point for new vendors to introduce themselves to the library community.

So if you're inclined to organize your library outside any vendor - specific apps, such as in Calibre, be aware that you won't be able to read any DRMed titles from the iBooks store outside iBooks.

«Ingram's enhanced profiling capability on their OASIS platform will give libraries the relevant tools they need to select and purchase e-book content from multiple vendors from one location in their desired workflow.

Libraries worldwide consult Books In Print to find titles, create lists and decide which vendor, ebook platform, or online retailer to source the title from.

SirsiDynix is proud to create these industry - leading tools for more libraries than any other vendor in the world, for the benefit of libraries and communities everywhere.

What does an ebooks marketplace look like if, in addition to libraries, content providers are equally committed to a sustainable ecosystem that enables viability for all players — publishers, vendors, authors, libraries and, of course, readers?

You will be able to connect to your vendors to find the best prices, connect your fund categories in an organized hierarchy, and connect with other libraries in your consortium to get more buying power.

When you receive a Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN) through Archway Publishing, your book will be numbered and linked to the LOC, national libraries, bibliographic utilities and other book vendors so your book is easy to find.

The library will buy the selected titles that are published on Smashwords through its e-book vendor, OverDrive.

Only a small number of ebook vendors (actually, Springer is the only one I know of) allow for any sort of ILL, which means that the more our book collections go digital, the less we will be able to loan to other libraries or borrow from other libraries.

A library system can often only afford to deal with one wholesaler, the costs of integration into lending systems are too high for them to choose between multiple vendors.

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.

For publishers and vendors, COUNTER provides a Code of Practice, to ensure that their library customers receive reliable and consistent usage data.

Known as the Code of Practice, the standard ensures vendors and publishers can provide their library customers with consistent, credible and comparable usage data.

Last Year, ReadersFirst called for the library card to be a possiblity for readers creating vendor accounts to access eBooks.

We don't usually mention particular vendors on our site (outside of our guide to library eBook vendors), but RF would like to thank OverDrive for being responsive and taking another small step in making thier sitre more library user friendly and in accord with RF principles.

I currently work for a state library and am part of a group evaluating new vendors for public library ebook services.

So if you are feeling even more aggravated than ever about ebook prices, circulation limits, time limits, vendor platforms, or the lack of integration that frustrates library patrons, just get a couple of these adult coloring books and color your way to relaxation.

In terms of working with the vendors, libraries need to be able to experiment and develop on the Queens model to provide single points of access to all materials, both physical and digital, and a solid customer experience.

Our growth, and our expansion into Canada in partnership with Whitehots, is gaining traction as more libraries begin to realize the advantages of ordering print and digital formats at the same time from a single vendor.»

And only OverDrive among the library digital vendors offers much in the way of recent release eComics, and that only a small fraction of what's potentially available.

Libraries have reasons to be optimistic about the ebook future, though this optimism is tempered by warnings to keep the pressure on publishers, vendors, and ourselves to produce a coherent user experience.

Working with vendor OverDrive, which manages e-book lending for the vast majority of public libraries, the deal will make thousands of titles available via more than 11,000 of OverDrive's public library partners.

Libraries aren't mounting these books on their own servers, but instead rely on the platform vendors to answer questions about uses.

I envision a variety of business models in use, but if nothing else, libraries could buy multiple e-copies (or at least «copies» as they would exist for accounting purposes) of popular e-books, just as they can now under arrangements with OverDrive and other vendors.

Libraries, by using these vendors have outsourced what they did best in the past — organizing, housing, protecting and distributing content in a user centred and accessible environment.

«Many other ILS vendors say that they have a fully integrated eBook system for libraries, but unlike the others, this one is live and working at a real library, thanks to the hard work of 3M, Polaris and Baltimore County Public Library staff.

This session will bring together a privacy law professor who is thinking about a world without intellectual privacy, an academic librarian who worked with an ALA committee to create Library Privacy Guidelines for E-book Lending and Digital Content Vendors, and a public librarian working on a grant - funded project to help library professionals increase their knowledge of digital and data privacy concerns to better serve the patrons who access their library's technological resources