Thursday, March 12th, 2015 Posted in Digital Collections, For Libraries, Grants and Funding, News, Training and Continuing Education, Updates | Comments Off on WSL Updates for March 12, 2015
Volume 11, March 12, 2015 for the WSL Updates mailing list
Topics include:
1) WASHINGTON RURAL HERITAGE GRANT CYCLE OPEN
2) RECORDED BOOKS ONECLICK RENEWALS
3) SAN JUAN ISLAND LIBRARY WINS AWARD
4) STORYCORPS COMES TO NISQUALLY
5) WELL-FED & WELL-READ – SUMMER MEAL SITES
6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 Posted in Digital Collections, For Libraries, Grants and Funding, News, Training and Continuing Education, Updates | Comments Off on WSL Updates for September 30, 2010
Volume 6, September 30, 2010 for the WSL Updates mailing list
Topics include:
1) SDL NEEDS ASSESSMENT SURVEYS
2) WSL CONTRIBUTES 115,000 PAGES TO CHRONICLING AMERICA
3) FIRST TUESDAYS PRESENTS SUMMER READING PREVIEW
4) FREE PRESERVATION WORKSHOPS
5) LAURA BUSH 21ST CENTURY LIBRARIAN GRANTS
6) STRETCH DONATIONS FOR NOLO BOOKS
7) TRAVEL GRANTS TO ATTEND ALA MIDWINTER
8) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010 Posted in For Libraries, Grants and Funding, News, Training and Continuing Education, Updates | Comments Off on WSL Updates for September 23, 2010
Volume 6, September 23, 2010 for the WSL Updates mailing list
Topics include:
1) NEW DIGITAL COLLECTION – KIONA-BENTON CITY HERITAGE
2) 2009 WASHINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY STATISTICAL REPORT
3) THERE’S STILL TIME TO TAKE THE SURVEY
4) SPARKS! IGNITION GRANTS
5) GREAT STORIES CLUB GRANTS FROM ALA
6) MUSEUMS FOR AMERICA GRANT PROGRAM
7) AMIGOS ANNOUNCES WESTERN RESOURCE SHARING AGREEMENT
8) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 Posted in Articles, For Libraries, News, Technology and Resources | Comments Off on No Shelf Required Interview on eAudiobooks
Sue Polanka of No Shelf Required interviews Ebsco’s Senior Director of Sales for eBooks and eAudiobooks for NetLibrary, Scott Wasinger. The interview cover changes to NetLibrary and how it will integrate into the Ebsco interface.
“Scott and I discussed how EBSCO is implementing the NetLibrary content into the existing EBSCOhost interface, what changes we can expect to see with the Netlibrary interface, new plans for business models, and how the input from librarians is helping them to shape the future of NetLibrary.”
Check out the story at No Shelf Required. Click on the first link (Scott’s name) to open / download the interview, which is a 20MB mp3 file. The interview itself is about 20 minutes long.
While you’re in the mood, check out our nifty statewide eaudiobooks project.
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 Posted in Articles, For Libraries, News, Technology and Resources | Comments Off on All Your NetLibrary Are Belong to EBSCO
Evidently neither OCLC nor EBSCO have any problems with secrets leaking out from their companies, because this comes as a huge shock (and us just getting our big statewide NetLibrary thing going)! Basically it looks as though OCLC is moving away from owning/reselling content, and instead focusing more on providing access to other people’s content (a good move, I think).
Library Journal has a good paragraph regarding OCLC’s position in this:
“It’s a strategic repositioning from hosting and reselling content to building WorldCat out as a platform that libraries can use to manage and provide access to their entire collection,” including ebooks and articles, said OCLC VP Chip Nilges in an interview with LJ. It’s also “part of a broader effort to “provide comprehensive coverage” of ebooks in WorldCat,” said Nilges. “We have an agreement with Google Book Search to link to books in WorldCat; we have a similar agreement with Hathi Trust. We’re in hot pursuit of many different providers.”
EBSCO, meanwhile, has furthered their attempt at domination of the content market, also buying 15 vendor-owned databases that were once a part of FirstSearch.
Lots more info via the press release on PRWeb.