Derbyshire County Council Libraries Now Offering eAudiobook Service

Derbyshire County Council’s libraries first started offering ebooks back in 2011 and…

Kuzya The Cat Now Assistant Librarian of Novorossiysk Library in Russia

With public library budgets around the world being dangerously low, one Russian…

Oyster Offering All-You-Can-Read eBooks For $9.95/Month

Oyster is out to win over the reading community with an offer…

Libraries Websites Key to Book Discovery

OverDrive recently held its annual Digipalooza conference where they polled close to…

eBook Television Commercial Increases Circulation for One Library

Libraries tend to rely on word of mouth advertising to promote their…

ProQuest and Bibliotheque National de France to Digitize Important and Rare Works via Early European Books Program

Digitization of the world’s heritage increases day by day. Now, ProQuest and…

ProQuest Will Acquire eBook Library

ProQuest is on a roll. After acquiring ebrary in 2011, it has…

University Libraries in Nova Scotia Test eBook Lending Plan

A consortium of 10 academic libraries in Nova Scotia, Novanet, has negotiated…

Libraries: More Important Than Ever for Discovery

A workshop on libraries and ebooks was held with Skip Dye, VP,…

Smashwords/Douglas County Deal Required a Lot of Work

Previously we reported on Douglas County acquiring 10,000 self-published ebooks from Smashwords.…

How to Make Library eBooks More Visible

Many libraries are investing in a digital infrastructure to allow patrons to…

Douglas County Libraries Acquire 10K eBooks from Smashwords

Once again Smashwords is showing up the mainstream publishers. According to ALA…

Libraries Starting to Emerge as Bookstores

With bookstores gradually on the way out in the digital age, libraries…

Simon & Schuster Agrees to Sell One eBook to a Library

One of the things that Simon & Schuster is noted for is…

A Different Model for e-Lending in Sweden

The Literary Platform has an absolutely fascinating article about how ebook lending…

eBooks for Libraries Website Opens

eBooks for Libraries is a site run by a librarian and sponsored…

eBooks Don’t Have Bedbugs – Library Books Do

The NY Times is reporting that libraries are trying to deal with…

First Public Beta Version of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek Is Launched

Along with the rise of ebooks, we have been seeing a huge…

Largest Children’s Library in Mexico Opens and Uses 3,000 eBooks

3,000 ebooks will be part of a new children’s library in Mexico…

OverDrive CEO Addresses UK Parliament on eBook Lending

The Libraries All Party Parliamentary Group held an ebook summit in London…

New Provider, New Customers on the Digital Reference Front

Credo Reference, a mainstay in offering reference content to libraries since 1999,…

ebrary Provides Content Aligned with Common Core Standards

One of the key flaws of the US educational system as identified…

Abandoned Walmart in Texas Transforms into a Giant Library

McAllen Texas found itself in the all too common situation of having…