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10,000 Smashwords E-books Acquired by Douglas County Libraries
Douglas County Libraries has acquired 10,000 e-book titles from Smashwords, bringing its total number of e-book files owned to 21,000. All of the content purchased from Smashwords, including books in popular genres such as fiction, romance, mystery, and science fiction, is available for borrowing by library patrons.
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OverDrive Sees Record Usage on Christmas
OverDrive is reporting record numbers for the holiday season. The company said that its digital lending platform served a record number of library patrons, accessing content for myriad devices, on Christmas Day.
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You Have Two, Maybe Three Years...
At a small, invitation-only meeting convened late last month in the Netherlands by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), I joined some 25 key thinkers, primarily from Europe and the U.S., for an exhausting, engrossing three days of debate. But after many hours of discussion and examination—talks that inevitably spilled over into local pubs and restaurants—none of us was left feeling that libraries were firmly seizing control of their future.
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Core Values: ALA Preview 2013
The Common Core standards have been a hot topic of discussion throughout 2012 – a topic that will get even hotter in 2013. PW talks to AASL president Sue Ballard and ALA's Gillian Engberg.
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Brian Kenney Joins 'PW' as Contributing Editor
Deepening its commitment to library issues, Publishers Weekly is pleased to announce the addition of Brian Kenney, formerly editorial director of Library Journal, SLJ, and The Horn Book, as a contributing editor and blogger. In his new role, Kenney will write a monthly column dedicated to exploring the dynamic relationship between publishers and libraries, will contribute blog posts and commentary, and will report from library conferences.
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Brain Hive Adds New Publishers to Lending Service
Brain Hive, a pay-as-you-go e-book lending service for K-12 school libraries that launched in August, is adding new publishers' titles to its e-books lending library collection.
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Harvey Pekar Gets Statue Plus Image on Cleveland Library Card
In a big weekend for the family of the late Harvey Pekar, acclaimed autobiographical comics writer and favorite son of the city of Cleveland, the city's public library erected a statue in his honor and also issued limited edition library cards with his likeness.
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FastPencil, Auto-Graphics Team for Library Publishing Platform
FastPencil and Auto-Graphics are bringing e-publishing to libraries.
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Follett Sells Part of BWI to B&T
BWI, a Follett Corporation company that provides children’s and YA books and audiovisual materials to public libraries, sold a portion of its assets to B&T.
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Brain Hive Offers On-Demand K-12 E-book Library Lending
Brain Hive is an on-demand pay-as-you-go e-book lending service offering schools online access to a library of K-12 digital titles. Membership in the service is free, titles are available immediately and libraries and schools are charged $1 for each e-book circulated.
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ebrary Adds Titles for Vocational and Community Colleges
For the community colleges and vocational schools it works with, ebrary has added a number of e-books, as well as acquisition models.
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Librarians at Comic-Con: Bringing Comics to Life at the Library
The panel, “Bringing Comics to Life in the Library!” held at the recent San Diego Comic-Con International, looked at the strategies five libraries use to engage readers and the implications for comics publishers.
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Penguin Launches E-book Library Lending Pilot Program
With the American Library Association annual meeting set to begin later this week, Penguin has announced a pilot program to digitally lend its titles.
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Dean Haspiel Donates Mini-Comics to SPX, Library of Congress Collection
Emmy Award-winning cartoonist Dean Haspiel has reached an agreement to donate his collection of mini-comics to the Small Press Expo Collection at the Library of Congress.
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The Will Eisner Graphic Novel Prize For Libraries to Debut at ALA Anaheim
The American Library Association and The Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation announced plans to launch the Will Eisner Graphic Novel Prize for Libraries, to be awarded to three libraries annually at the ALA Summer conference.
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R&L, NBN Ink E-book Deal with 3M Cloud Library
Rowman & Littlefield and its sister company, distributor National Book Network, have a deal with 3M Library Systems to offer content via the company’s 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Servic
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iVerse to Launch Digital Comics Library Service
The digital comics distributor iVerse is breaking new ground with a service that will allow libraries to offer digital comics to their patrons to read on just about every digital device.
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OverDrive Study On How Readers Use Libraries to Find Books
Looking to support the contention that libraries drive book discovery and sales, library digital vendor OverDrive compiled data on patron use from its 18,000 library client sites during the month of March.
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Penguin Severs Ties with OverDrive
Penguin is terminating its contract with OverDrive, the library digital vendor, and starting February 10 will cease to offer any of its e-books or audiobooks to libraries.
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At ALA Midwinter, Librarians Show Some Fight
They say everything is bigger in Texas, and that certainly held true for the issues facing librarians at the American Library Association’s 2012 Midwinter Meeting, held January 20–24 in Dallas. In a climate of stretched budgets, ever-more-complex technology, copyright and legislative issues, and a lingering question over library lending of e-books, the issues facing libraries have never been more serious. And after a 2011 that saw little progress—and, in fact, regression on some fronts, such as e-books—in Dallas librarians signaled that they are determined to take more control of their future in 2012.
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