Ohio Consortium Adds Ebooks
OverDrive provides SEO with power to download texts remotely
By Staff -- Library Journal, 7/15/2004
The Southeastern Ohio Automation Consortium (SEO) now offers its 67 public library members access to ebooks. SEO contracted with OverDrive Inc. for the necessary technology. SEO director Christine Tucker said that the group serves "both large and small populations so we chose a platform flexible enough to meet the needs of all our member libraries. OverDrive's technology enables us to have a shared ebook system that gives thousands of patrons across Ohio easy access to digital media."
SEO is offering a wide range of titles in fiction and nonfiction "from popular authors and leading publishers such as HarperCollins, McGraw-Hill, Zondervan, and John Wiley in Adobe PDF and Mobipocket format." Patrons can download free reader software and use their library cards to check out and download ebooks from the consortium's web site (seoebook.seo.lib.oh.us) to PCs, PDAs, pocket PCs, and select smartphones. The books are automatically rendered inoperable after the loan period.
