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The Shrinking Reference Collection and the Growing Reference Collection

Posted on November 17, 2011 | Comments Off

Shrinking

I have been spending a good bit of the day removing catalog records of several large reference sets from our catalog and from OCLC.  This has included several of the Gale literature sets that have been collecting dust for many years and costing us dearly in updates as well as several sets of old encyclopedias.  I am very happy to see them going away.   We have emptied two whole ranges of shelves in our reference collection.  The space will be used to expand our service desk that houses circulation, course reserve and interlibrary loan.  This will result in better services to our patrons and better working conditions for staff and student workers.

Growing

The reference collection has also gotten at least two orders of magnitude larger over the last few months.   This happened as a result of our purchasing new eBooks and eBook collections from Gale Virtual Reference Library, EBSCO eBooks (formerly NetLibrary), ACLS, and eBrary.  We now have access to more than 75 thousand ebook titles via our library catalog.  As we get MARC records loaded, that number will be increasing even more.  Our print collection is around 50 thousand.  Our print reference collection is around 2 thousand titles.

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Ebook experience from the TC3 Library

Posted on September 9, 2011 | Comments Off

From the TC3 Library home page: http://www.tc3.edu/library/

 

Do a search for JAVA using the quick search box.

 

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You get 160 items in this search.

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Click on the “Click here to read this eBook” to see the different interfaces:

 


EBSCO eBooks/NetLibrary

 

 


 

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eBrary:
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Free Virtual Conference – Library Resource Sharing: Emerging Trends & Technologies – Register Now!

Posted on August 24, 2011 | Comments Off

Register Now for SEFLIN’s Free Virtual Conference on September 23, 2011

Library Resource Sharing: Emerging Trends & Technologies
This conference, delivered through SEFLIN Connect online meeting service, will highlight new trends and new technology for resource sharing among libraries. Leaders in the field and subject-experts will provide live presentations and interact with attendees. Presentations include:

 

• The Future Trends: Will Libraries Be At The Table?
Stephen Abram (Gale Cengage Learning)

 

• Interlibrary Loan: The Future is Now
Russell Palmer (LYRASIS)

 

• Library eBooks: Past, Present & Future
Lindsey Levinsohn (OverDrive, Inc.)

 

• Statewide Patron Initiated ILL: Florida & OCLC’s Excellent Adventure
Mark Flynn (State Library of Florida) & Al Carlson (Tampa Bay Library Consortium)

 

• The Future of Digital Libraries
Sarah Houghton-Jan (“The Librarian in Black” – San Rafael Public Library).

 

The conference will be fully accessible from any Web-connected computer or mobile device.
Save on travel costs and time, and join other information professionals from around the country.

 

Registration is free and open to all.  Group viewing is welcomed.

Register here:  http://www.seflin.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.vircon2011

Sincerely,
Mary Radnor

Mary C. Radnor

Resource Sharing Librarian

Florida International University

Phone: 305-348-3011

mradnor@fiu.edu

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The Ticklish Problem of Pricing E-books for Libraries « The Scholarly Kitchen [http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/]

Posted on August 12, 2011 | Comments Off

With all the strains on library budgets nowadays, it seems odd that libraries are soon to be asked to take on even more responsibility for purchasing appropriate materials for their institutions. It seems odder still that some librarians welcome this expanded role.

As a consumer of content, a university community is a rare bird. Not only do universities consume materials that have little audience outside the academy (e.g., some research journals), they also consume textbooks (a $7 billion industry), scholarly monographs, and huge numbers of trade books, as even the most distinguished professor may choose to curl up with a mystery novel in the evening. You can tell you are in a university town simply by looking at the bookstores. For starters, university towns still have bookstores, even with so much book commerce being conducted over the Internet nowadays; and the bookshops, which often include a wide array of used books, display titles that you are unlikely to find in a town without a large intellectual community.

Entire article and great comments at: The Ticklish Problem of Pricing E-books for Libraries « The Scholarly Kitchen [http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/].

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Kindle Cloud Reader [http://www.amazon.com/]

Posted on August 10, 2011 | Comments Off

I just “installed” this in my Chrome browser. It is a great app for Chrome or Safari browsers. From Amazon:

Kindle Cloud Reader allows you to read Kindle books on a Windows PC or Mac using the Google Chrome or Safari web browsers, on Linux computers using Google Chrome, and on an iPad using the Safari web browser.

via Amazon.com Help: Kindle Cloud Reader [http://www.amazon.com/].

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