KohaCon10: Identifying eBooks
Stuart Yeates was up first on day two of the conference. Stuart stated by showing us the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre a very awesome looking site that takes digital texts and enhances them with...
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Free Ebook Records for your Catalog
A couple years ago (on my blog) I brought a private project that shared Project Gutenberg records to your attention. Well, yesterday I thought I would go out and see if they had any more records to...
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$13 Txtr Beagle Is World’s Cheapest and Smallest E-Reader
As reported by Mashable and others today, German company Txtr is producing an extremely bare-bones E-reader called the Beagle, selling for only $13. The 5-inch, 4.5-oz E Ink device with its 800×600...
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Sales of E-book readers down in 2012
As reported by CNET and others this week, sales of e-book readers has been drastically outpaced by the ubiquity of tablets this year. Devices like the new Kindle Fire, Apple’s iPad Mini, and Google’s...
View Article“Bookless libraries” and the death of the paper book
In an article from San Antonio, TX, a county judge is working to open a “bookless library.” This is a swell idea, and I support it fully. But before some of you younger folks that I know go into a...
View Article“Papertab” paper tablet is your flexible friend
There’s certainly been a great deal of talk about tablets and e-readers these days, but one of the newest iterations of e-ink technology coming down the pipe is flexible displays: I’m personally really...
View ArticleLibraries as Publishers
As reported in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, libraries across Texas are investigating the possibility of following a model similar to the Douglas County Library System in Colorado, where libraries...
View ArticleAltering MARC Records in MarcEdit before Importing in to Koha
Often our partners will get batches of records from their ebook (or other content) vendor and want to bring them in to Koha with item information. This tutorial walks you through using MarcEdit (a...
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Free Ebooks for your Koha Catalog
I know that I posted this last year, but so many new libraries have joined the Koha community recently, that I wanted to share with you all a way to get free ebook records for your catalogs. Did you...
View ArticleFree Ebook MARC Records from Open Library
A few months ago I reminded you all about the free ebook MARC records available from Project Gutenberg. Today I found yet another source for free lendable ebooks records! The Open Library is an awesome...
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