BIC Poster 2014

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BENEFITS OF E-BOOKS 24/7 Access anywhere – Library without walls Easy translation to many languages, non-textual multi-media, text to speech, interactive widgets Can be annotated without harming the original work Popular E-readers and formats: .txt, .pdf, .epub, .html, .prc, .mobi .txt, .pdf, .html, .prc, .mobi, .azw .epub* (*on the kindle fire) .txt, .pdf, .epub, .html .txt, .pdf, .epub, .lrf, .lrx (Broadband eBooks) Marlinda Karo & Susan Clarke Bright Ideas Conference May 1, 2014 FREE E-BOOK SOURCES www.gutenberg.org play.google.com/store/books/collection/topselling_free archive.org/details/texts E-BOOK SUBJECTS AT STEEN LIBRARY STEEN LIBRARY’S E-BOOK GROWTH DEMAND-DRIVEN ACQUISITIONS Demand-Driven Acquisitions (DDA) provides you with quicker access to more electronic information resources, while maximizing Steen Library’s purchasing power. The Library doesn’t purchase the resource until the user selects it. User Library Publisher Library

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BENEFITS OF E-BOOKS

24/7 Access anywhere – Library without walls

Easy translation to many languages, non-textual multi-media, text to speech, interactive widgets

Can be annotated without harming the original work

Popular E-readers and formats: .txt, .pdf, .epub, .html, .prc, .mobi

.txt, .pdf, .html, .prc, .mobi, .azw .epub* (*on the kindle fire) .txt, .pdf, .epub, .html .txt, .pdf, .epub, .lrf, .lrx (Broadband eBooks)

Marlinda Karo & Susan Clarke Bright Ideas Conference

May 1, 2014

FREE E-BOOK SOURCES

www.gutenberg.org play.google.com/store/books/collection/topselling_free

archive.org/details/texts

E-BOOK SUBJECTS AT STEEN LIBRARY

STEEN LIBRARY’S E-BOOK GROWTH

DEMAND-DRIVEN ACQUISITIONS

Demand-Driven Acquisitions (DDA) provides you with quicker access to more electronic information resources, while maximizing Steen Library’s purchasing power. The Library doesn’t purchase the resource until the user selects it.

User

Library

Publisher

Library