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EBSCO Discovery Service – Now Available
I received an email last week that the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) is now available. You can learn more at http://www.ebscohost.com/discovery/ and there’s a link to request a free trial at the top of the page. It looks like they’ve given it the same look as the EBSCOHost products, though there’s mention that the colour…
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On the importance of good metadata
The December 2009 issue of Information Technology and Libraries 28(4) has a slew of articles around discovery systems, all written by librarians from UNLV. I'm hoping to read them over vacation, but no promises. I did read Information Discovery Insights Gained from MultiPAC, a Prototype Library Discovery System by Alex A. Dolski and found it…
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Gale’s iPhone app – AccessMyLibrary
Got a chance to play with Gale's new iPhone app, which acts as a portal to its AccessMyLibrary service. AccessMyLibrary is a service that allows you to access your local public library's Gale databases w/o having to authenticate through the library. So back to the iPhone app. In a nutshell, it works well as far…
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Have my book-buying habits changed?
Teleread has a great post in which the author reports on his/her experiences with the Sony PRS-505 ebook reader after one year of use. I particularly wanted to point out the section of the review entitled "Have my book-buying habits changed?" because it mirrors my experience reading and buying books for the iPhone. I used…