No Shelf Required

I read an interesting paper by Mark T J Carden of Ingram Digital. He presented this paper at the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (see citation below).  Mark discusses how eBooks are following the same evolutionary path of physical books and won’t be fully adopted until the “traditional book is deconstructed and reconstructed to […]

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 The OReilly Tools of Change conference is underway in NYC, with many presentations and discussions about ebooks.  One that caught my eye was a panel discussion of eBook business models and strategies.  The presenters were:  Michael Smith (International Digital Publishing Forum), Kenneth Brooks (Cengage Learning), Leslie Hulse (HarperCollins Publishers), […]

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Getting to grips with developing and managing e-book collections: an introduction
to be held in the
Netskills Training Suite, University of Newcastle
Tuesday 27th October 2009, 9.30 - 16.30
Course Outline
This course opens the door to a new electronic format and is designed to support librarians who are beginning to set up e-book collections. In the last eight years, […]

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For the first time in history, the American Library Association’s (ALA) Dartmouth Award, designating outstanding quality and significance to a reference source, was given to an electronic resource.  Greenwood’s Pop Culture Universe, was the 2009 recipient. The Committee selected Pop Culture Universe because it compiles over 300 sources of pop culture information into a fun, […]

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Jason Price and John McDonald, from Claremont Colleges, have completed a study profiling various ebook aggregator collections to their print collection.  Their goal, to find out if eBooks can supersede the print collection, or just supplement the collection.  They presented this in Charleston last November, but have now finalized their stats and have posted the […]

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In the 2008 Project Gutenberg Year in Review, it is reported that during 2008 they surpassed 32,000 original Project Gutenberg eBooks.  “This now means that the original Project Gutenberg editions now list as many book titles as your average U.S. public library,” says Mike Cook.  Additional statistics on the project can be found in […]

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According to Chris Andrews, from Project Gutenberg, 2009 will be the year of the eBook.  Chris offers 20 reasons why.   Bring it on….what has taken so long (sp)?  I’d list them here, but it’s much more fun to read them at Chris’s site in order to see the many comments (and offer your own).
I’d like […]

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Just in time for your holiday shopping, another source for free ebooks - Finding Free eBooks - a blog, from Christine (no last name listed).
Plenty of other free ebook sites exist.  For a list of the top 20, see Hongkiat.com’s list, also linked from the NSR blog.

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I just returned from The Charleston Conference and was amazed by the sessions and general discussions relating to eBooks.  I tried to get to most of them, but that was impossible due to the amount of sessions.  If you attended or presented one of these sessions, I invite you to post your comments to No Shelf Required.  I […]

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OCLC, the University of Washington, and Syracuse University are working together to create a “credible” search engine, one that offers results with preference to sites selected by librarians.
According to the press release, “Reference Extract is envisioned as a Web search experience similar to those provided by the world’s most popular search engines. However, unlike other […]

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