EBSCOhost Releases Content Viewer; PALINET/ SOLINET Merger Progresses; BCR, BiblioLife, and Ingram Team Up To Offer Shelf2Life
Josh Hadro and Lynn Blumenstein -- Library Journal, 1/8/2009 9:49:00 AM
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At the recent American Historical Association Conference in New York City, EBSCOhost announced the release of a new feature for browsing historical documents called Content Viewer. With the tool, users will be able to call up a visual document map overlay of the pages being viewed, giving them a better sense of the structure of a text and preserving “the serendipity involved in doing historical research." The Content Viewer will be available for products coming out in 2009 covering content from the American Theological Library Association and the American Antiquarian Society...
The merging Philadelphia-based PALINET and Atlanta-based SOLINET consortia are offering their members access to the Information Today Inc. Library and Consortia Resource Collection. It features six databases, including American Library Directory, Fulltext Sources Online, Literary Market Place, International Market Place, Faulkner Advisory for Information Technology Studies, and Faulkner Security Management Practices. Meanwhile, Jackson Spalding, an Atlanta-based marketing communications firm, has begun to work on the creative issues surrounding the merger. JS Creative, its branding and creative services division, has been addressing the renaming process, to be followed by brand positioning and logo development...
BCR, BiblioLife, and Ingram are working together to offer libraries a new digitization program, Shelf2Life. According to BCR, here’s how it works: Participating libraries work with BCR to identify materials to digitize or supply files of previously digitized titles. BCR scans the books utilizing BiblioLife custom software. BiblioLife post-processes each title and delivers the ebook to Ingram Digital, which adds the title to its MyiLibrary platform. Titles may also be delivered to Lightning Source so that the book can be offered as a print-on-demand title. The University of Colorado Boulder Library is a customer.
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