Submitted by Jason Griffey on January 26, 2012 - 10:20pm
Apple has decided to attempt yet another media disruption, this time focusing on reinventing the textbook market. This move was foretold in the biography of Steve Jobs, where Walter Isaacson wrote about Jobs:
“He wanted to disrupt the textbook industry, and save the spines of spavined students bearing backpacks by creating electronic texts and curriculum material for the iPad." Read More »
There’s no question that the role e-books and e-readers in libraries is increasing rapidly. For this issue of Library Technology Reports, Sue Polanka has compiled an expert-authored series of articles that provide librarians with strategies, best practices and case studies for meeting the unprecendented legal, technological, and vendor challeges that come with e-book purchasing.
In the current phase of library technology, it is common for discovery systems to be implemented in a manner loosely coupled with core automation systems. We’ve evolved away from a time where the online catalog module of the integrated library system could stand as the primary search tool, at least for those with large and varied collections. An increasing number of libraries have implemented discovery interfaces more loosely tied to the core ILS. The discovery interface may or may not be produced by the same company as the ILS, and an interesting set of dynamics has emerged among the organizations offering these products, with the library often carrying the burden of making sure that everything works together smoothly. Read More »
There’s no question that the role e-books and e-readers in libraries is increasing rapidly. For this issue of Library Technology Reports, Sue Polanka has compiled an expert-authored series of articles that provide librarians with strategies, best practices and case studies for meeting the unprecendented legal, technological, and vendor challeges that come with e-book purchasing.
