Thursday, September 29, 2011

Tish Wagner from ebrary

Offer various loan models including patron initiated acquisitions, subscription, short-term.

4500 (primarily academic) customers. 19.2 Million end users.

71% of public libraries do not circulate devices.

Launching downloads. Will work across all reader types. Offering chapter and full-text downloads. Loan periods are up to individual libraries.

No immediate annotation features. iPod / iPad now. Apps coming soon. Patrons can use them online or offline. ADE compatible. Early returns OK.

25,000 titles available now.

Library sets up a profile and how much they want to spend out of 300,000 titles. Multnomah county and Lake Oswego just added the service.

[MY NOTE: We need to look at them again.]
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