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Free e-books for Everybody!

Free e-books for Everybody!. Well-established resources for every kind of library . Using this software. Discussion . What types of e-book resources do you have at your library?. Discussion . How do you use e-books? How do your patrons use e-books?. Advantages.

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Free e-books for Everybody!

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  1. Free e-books for Everybody! Well-established resources for every kind of library

  2. Using this software

  3. Discussion • What types of e-book resources do you have at your library?

  4. Discussion • How do you use e-books? • How do your patrons use e-books?

  5. Advantages • What do you and your users love about e-books?

  6. Challenges? • What aspects of e-books are difficult to work with?

  7. Focus for today • We will learn more about excellent free e-book resources for all types of libraries, and how these e-book collections can be used to serve our users.

  8. The Hathi Trust • http://www.hathitrust.org/ • Metadata Available: • http://bit.ly/ae1P5r • Devices: Not applicable • Downloads: “Users affiliated with HathiTrust partner institutions are able to download books in the public domain in their entirety. Please see information about logging in under Authentication/Login above. Users who are not affiliated with HathiTrust partner institutions can download single-page PDFs. There is significant overlap of volumes in HathiTrust and Google Book Search and if a book is "full view" in HathiTrust, it is possible that a PDF of the entire book can be downloaded from Google Book Search.”

  9. The Hathi Trust • Interesting compilation of statistics and visualization of content • i.e. “What’s in here?” • http://www.hathitrust.org/statistics_visualizations

  10. Project Gutenburg • Access: http://www.gutenberg.org/ • Total titles: Over 100,000 free e-books • MARC Records available: • http://bit.ly/k75joB • Devices: 33,000 titles for use with ipad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iphone, Nook and others • Mobile reader device “How To:” • http://bit.ly/7aiFnZ

  11. Google Books/e-books/Magazines • http://books.google.com/ • Thousands of books for purchase, many public domain books for use • http://books.google.com/ebooks • Thousands of books for purchase • Some books for devices • Many free books available • Supported devices/platforms: • iOS (iphone, ipad), Nook, Sony, Android

  12. Google Magazines • Thousands of titles available • Sublime (Time, Life) • Ridiculous (Weekly World News)

  13. Internet Archive • e-book and text archive • http://www.archive.org/details/texts • Approaching 3 million titles • “…a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books.”

  14. Internet Archive • Devices: Depends on the collection it comes from in the archive, but many of the texts do have an e-format option

  15. International Children’sDigital Library • http://en.childrenslibrary.org/ • Great article from: The Children’s Book Review online on free e-book sources for kids-- • http://www.thechildrensbookreview.com/weblog/2009/09/where-to-find-free-ebooks-for-children-online.html

  16. National Academies Press • http://www.nap.edu/ • “…offer many {academic} titles in electronic Adobe PDF format. Hundreds of these books can be downloaded for free by the chapter or the entire book, while others are available for purchase.”

  17. Directory of Open Access Books • Companion to DOAJ • http://www.doabooks.org/ • “The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact.”

  18. e-audio books • LibriVox • http://librivox.org/ • “LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. There are several options for listening. The first step is to get the mp3 or ogg files • Read by volunteers who contribute to the project

  19. Laundry Lists • Internet Public Library “Online Texts” Pathfinder: • http://bit.ly/5DolaO • Free e-books Pathfinder (Joyce Valenza) • http://springfieldebooks.wikispaces.com/

  20. What have you found? • What unique resources for e-books have you found and utilized?

  21. Trends • Open publishing options • Kindle Direct Publishing • Apple Ibooks author • Open textbooks • SUNY system • http://opensuny.org/omp/index.php/SUNYOpenTextbooks

  22. Wrap up • Questions? • Look for more classes on e-books coming soon!

  23. Thank You for Attending! Questions? • Professional Development • 1.800.999.8558 • Web: lyrasis.org • e-mail: russell.palmer@lyrasis.org

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