Three experts shared tech tips and tools during “Flipped School Libraries,” a rapid-fire, dynamic session during The Digital Shift: Reinventing Libraries (#TDS13) webcast.
Test Driving Oyster, a “Netflix for Ebooks”
By on September 16, 2013
How good is Oyster, the new ebook subscription service? Linda W. Braun puts the application through its paces in a screencast series showing how to get started with Oyster, how to search titles, and what it all means for libraries.
Sharing Public Domain Ebooks with the Book Elf
By on September 6, 2013
The Book Elf is a new tool for getting PD digital content into the hands of readers. Discovery of titles could be improved, but it does have some potential.
SAPL To Debut Digital Commons, Test “Public Proof” OverDrive Kiosk
By on August 6, 2013
The San Antonio Public Library (SAPL) this month will unveil Connect at Central, a new 12,800 square-foot digital commons in the system’s main library. In addition, as a beta tester for OverDrive, SAPL will be experimenting with an installation of the company’s new OverDrive Media Station (OMS) interface on a ruggedized kiosk that could be deployed in public areas outside of a library.
‘Here Be Fiction’ Launches: New site features ebook fiction available to schools on library-friendly terms
By on June 28, 2013
Discovery of ebooks in K-12, particularly worthwhile fiction, has been tough going. A new site, Here Be Fiction, will attempt to remedy that, enabling users to identify quality ebooks accessible to schools on library-friendly licensing terms. Featuring ebook previews and reviews, HereBeFiction.org will enable librarians and others to discover fiction from a wide variety of publishers made available for both individual and multi-user access.
3M SelfCheck, NoveList Partner on Reader Recommendation | ALA Annual 2013
By on June 25, 2013
For libraries that use both services, items checked out using the new Quick Connect interface for 3M SelfCheck will trigger a NoveList search, enabling SelfCheck screens to display reading recommendations limited to items that are owned by the patron’s library.
Common Sense Media Unveils Graphite, New Review Site for Apps, Digital Content
By on June 24, 2013
June 24 marked the debut of Graphite, a free, online guide to digital learning products compiled by and for educators. Created by Common Sense Media, a national nonprofit, the new resource reviews and rates digital products, including apps, games, websites and digital curricula for K-12.
Uncommonly Open: The New Digital Commons Network
By on June 19, 2013
As the new portal to content produced and stored using bepress’s widely used Digital Commons publishing and institutional repository platform, the Digital Commons Network helps users search hundreds of thousands of open access articles and other content.
Purdue University Libraries Launches Data Curation Profiles Directory
By on May 2, 2013
Purdue University Libraries (PUL) and its Distributed Data Curation Center have partnered with the Purdue University e-Pubs Repository to launch the Data Curation Profiles Directory, a new online resource that will track research data management projects at academic libraries.
Separated At Birth: Library and Publisher Metadata
By on April 29, 2013
The Douglas County Libraries’ (DCL) pioneering project to own, rather than license, much of its e-content has not only forged a new business model but also exposed a new frontier in metadata. As of March, about 22,000 of the library’s nearly 58,000 e-content titles had been purchased directly from publishers and stored on an Adobe Content Server (ACS), and it became quickly apparent to library staff that we were going to have to get creative with the metadata associated with this material.
