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Sarah calls out OverDrive
If you currently subscribe or are considering subscribing to OverDrive's ebook service, you owe it to yourself to go read Sarah's (LiB) post about how OverDrive is offering different catalogues to libraries based on how those libraries define their service areas. Apparently it is in OverDrive's TOS, but it's not very clear, and OverDrive hasn't
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Update on Ebrary downloadable content
Last month I complained that it wasn't possible to download ebrary content directly to the iPad, but that's changed sometime in the intervening weeks. As outlined in this ebrary knowledgebase post, you'll first need to create an Adobe ID (you probably have one already if you've dealt with their DRM in the past), and also
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That’s what I said! (student awareness of ebook usage)
Last week I got an email from ebrary as a followup to their recent survey on ebook usage. The following paragraph caught my eye (emphasis mine), Some of the results were surprising. For instance, patron awareness of e-books has not increased over the last three years and reported usage of e-books has not increased significantly
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Will a librarian be crowned as ScreenChamp?
Techsmith is running a contest to determine who will be crownded the first ScreenChamp, and there's a librarian in the running! There are 15 screencasts in total, covering Education, Industry, and Entertainment. What's neat about seeing them all in the same place like this is how easy it is to compare and contrast the different