After a significant budget veto, Florida’s five regional multi-type library cooperatives (MLCs) are looking to raise awareness of how their work impacts services provided by the state’s libraries.
Moving Beyond the NetLibrary Legacy, EBSCO Reshapes Its Ebook Platform
May 1, 2012 By 6 Comments
When EBSCO acquired NetLibrary from OCLC in March 2010, it obtained a fully formed ebook platform that already had a large collection of about 200,000 ebooks from 500 publishers available in 17,000 sites worldwide. The challenge was to smooth out this platform, now known as Ebooks on EBSCOhost, so that it could migrate to the EBSCO interface and there be remade.
Highlights of Highpoint (Public and University Library)
March 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The morning after Charlotte we drove over to Highpoint and visited both the University and Public Libraries. We took way too many videos than we could ever have time to edit and publish but these are some of our favorites. High Point Public library This library has a great teen space called the Teen Garage. [...]
Michael Lambert, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, and SMCL
March 11, 2012 By 3 Comments
I (PC Sweeney) Interviewed my new deputy director who just happens to come from the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. Before going to Charlotte, he worked in San Mateo County Library as the manager of the library branch that I am now the manager of. He spent about 5 years in Charlotte so he knows all about [...]
OCLC Unveils Website for Small Libraries Beta Project
February 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
On February 14, OCLC announced a new beta cloud-based service, Website for Small Libraries (WSSL), with which libraries with fewer than 20,000 items in their collections may construct a low-cost, simple but dynamic website. Features include basic patron and inventory management, including checkouts, returns, holds, and renewals, among other functions.
Serials Solutions’ Intota Library Management System in Development
February 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
During the recent American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in Dallas, ProQuest unit Serials Solutions released the name of its in-development library management system: Intota. The system, set to be completed next year, aims to provide a unified, web-based tool for libraries to manage selection, acquisition, cataloging, discovery, and fulfillment for both print and electronic content.
YALSA App ‘First of Its Kind’ for Discovering Teen Books
January 26, 2012 By 4 Comments
The Teen Book Finder app lets users discover titles from the past three years of YALSA’s lists and awards, all from their smartphones.
