No Shelf Required

I’ve been hearing lots of conversation about eBooks and the inability to use them for ILL requests.  With a shift in purchasing to electronic, how will this affect the ILL service? Should we be getting ILL rights with purchase?  How would that work in the world of authentication and proxy servers?  Are librarians thinking about […]

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Welcome to the new home of No Shelf Required, now hosted at the Wright State University Libraries.  Our new address is:  http://www.libraries.wright.edu/noshelfrequired/
 You’ll get the same great content, links, and opportunities to post your comments.  Please update your feeds with the correct address.  Thanks for your participation so far.
Sue

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A curious question for librarians. What traditional print reference source, presently not electronic, would you like to have electronically?
Please suggest titles in the comments section. Once we have a few, we’ll poll everyone on the suggested titles.
Thanks, Sue

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ACLS Humanities E-Book is conducting an experiment on the delivery of its online humanities titles. Since its inception, HEB has combined page-image books with XML books to create a seamless structure for searching and browsing within both technologies. HEB’s collection of over 1,700 books now includes over 1,600 books in the page-image format. We have […]

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From the Joint Information Systems Committee (UK). This is one of the largest studies known on eBooks.
What is it?
The national e-books observatory project will assess the impacts, observe behaviours and develop new models to stimulate the e-books market, and do all this in a managed environment.
More info and survey results available at: JISC http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/
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In support of U.S. National Library Week, April 13 to 19, 2008, ebrary is offering librarians, students and faculty in library science and related programs complimentary access to Library Center for one year.

The Library Center includes more than 85 full-text e-books covering topics such as digital library development, general collection development, and the history […]

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Yankee Book Publishing created an eBook Advisory Group which includes librarians from a variety of colleges and universities from across the U.S. and Canada. YBP seeks to develop an integrated approval plan of print and electronic books that incorporate the needs of its customers into the development of the system. Items under discussion include workflow, […]

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From LJ Academic Newswire:
SUNY Press To Offer Electronic Editions of Frontlist Books With the launch of its new DirectText (DT) initiative this week.
SUNY Press has become the first university press in the United States to offer electronic editions of its frontlist titles. With monographs becoming increasingly expensive, often exceeding $75, SUNY Press officials say the […]

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Each month, noshelfrequired will feature an audio interview with an Ebook publisher, aggregator, or distributor. Interviews will be about 10 - 15 minutes in length.
It is best to save the file on your computer first, then listen.
April 2008 - Rolf Janke, VP/Publisher, Sage Reference

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Cool idea! Thanks Gale/Cengage. I hope this isn’t an April Fool’s joke
To celebrate libraries and their resources, Gale is offering you free access to Books & Authors, our new and innovative online readers’ advisory resource for the entire month of April. Its browesable menus and advanced visual search technology allow readers to discover […]

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