Category: Document Delivery
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BookSwim – NetFlix for Books
Michael Stephens at Tame the Web points to an upcoming service called BookSwim that will launch the 1st quarter of 2007. Basically they’re going to do the NetFlix thing for books – for a subscription fee (amount unknown), you can enter your name in a queue for one of their 80,000 titles and they’ll ship…
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CFP: Journal of Access Services
I’m on the board of editors for the Journal of Access Services, and one of my roles is of course to drum up business. There’s a special issue coming up you might want to consider: Best Practices in Access Services. Laurie the Librarian has all the details. Deadline is Feb 1, 2007. Technorati Tags: JAS
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Tim says Book Search Should Work Like Web Search
Tim O’Reilly, long a proponent of Google Book Search, has a post in which he laments the fact that books housed in the different book scanning projects (Google Books, OCA, Amazon Search Inside) are not searchable by search engines other than those provided by their hosts. Surely it will only be a matter of time…
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Free Online Books
Rich at eContent has pointed to two interesting sources of free books in the past week. The first is to a site called FreeLoad Press that sounds really familiar, but I didn’t blog it before so I must’ve not seen it before 😉 From the site: “Thanks to our sponsors, you can “freeload” e-textbooks and…
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Canada Post Library Book Rate extended to Jan 2008
CLA today announced that Canada Post will extend the current Book Rate until January 2008. That’s great, though what actually impacts my department is the last little paragraph in the press release (PDF) that reads: Recognizing that some smaller libraries have had challenges in implementing the new electronic tools, Canada Post has also extended the…
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Download books for free from Google Book Search
Business Week and BoingBoing both alerted me to the fact that you can now download public domain books in their entirety from Google Book Search! I haven’t visted GBS for a while, but when I went to check it out tonight I see that there’s a new search option radio button to limit to Full…
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Amazon for home delivery of items to library users?
Sarah passes on a great idea from Helene Blowers to use Amazon Library Processing to ship books to the end user, and when s/he’s done, the book will be returned to the library and thus be entered into the circulating collection. I like that idea a lot. It’s very similar to what we’ve been trying…
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PrinterAnywhere for Document Delivery?
Amit posts about a new product/service called PrinterAnywhere (beta), that allows one to send a print job to any printer that’s connected to an online WinXP computer. Interesting idea. Got an international student? Why not send a print job consisting of a requested document directly to her printer? The service is free, but requires Windows…
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Brief Survey on Document Delivery / Interlibrary Loan
Michelle at Western Michigan University has a very brief survey on how your students access Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery systems at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=120282309518. It’s only 8 questions long – can you take a moment to fill it out for her? Technorati Tags: document_delivery, surveys
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Is Screencasting coming to SafariU?
I’m recommending another Jon Udell production to you; this time a 43-minute interview with CJ Rayhill of SafariU about their product, and technology in education in general. SafariU is an O’Reilly customized textbook product that allows profs to pick and choose content to create a customized copyright-cleared textbook for sale to students, and that also…