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EBook Collections Symposium at MSU

NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ Technology Committee. Sponsors programs and other activities for meeting the technological challenges facing libraries and librarians.Each year at the NJLA Spring Conference, the Committee presents the NJLA Technology Innovation Award, which honors a librarian or group of librarian

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EBook Collections Symposium at MSU

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    1. eBook Collections Symposium at MSU Denise O’Shea Fairleigh Dickinson University Chair, NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ Technology Committee

    2. NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ Technology Committee Sponsors programs and other activities for meeting the technological challenges facing libraries and librarians. Each year at the NJLA Spring Conference, the Committee presents the NJLA Technology Innovation Award, which honors a librarian or group of librarians for innovative use and application of technology in a New Jersey academic library.

    3. Committee Members Matthew Brown, NJIT Margaret Deng, Union County Community College Linda Silverstein, Monmouth University Ronald Jantz, Rutgers University Mary Mallery, Montclair State University Denise O'Shea, Fairleigh Dickinson Richard Stern, Seton Hall University Rong Wang, Bergen County Community College We are always looking for new members

    4. What is an eBook? The digital media equivalent of a printed book. Accessed via computer or an eReader There are at least 15 different file formats: Kindle, text, epub, html, pdf, mobi, prc, etc. Epub Open format – not proprietary Default standard but not every device supports it There are millions of free eBooks available

    5. eBooks: a Brief History eBooks and eReaders have been around a long time 1970s Project Guttenberg begins digitizing books 1998 First eReaders appeared on the market 2000 Overdrive begins offering downloadable titles 2002 NetLibrary purchased by OCLC 2007 the debut of the Kindle

    6. Where to Find Free eBooks Google Book Search and Google Book Stores eBook vendors (Amazon, B&N, etc.) sometimes have special, limited time free eBook offers Millions of eBooks are available that do not require the use of an eReader device: http://delicious.com/spraguelibrary20 Google Book Search is a very useful tool for finding books according to keyword search. The Google database contains a massive library of scanned books. You can also use Google Book Search to find and download books in the public domain. Only books in the public domain can be downloaded. Books with intact copyright are available only for preview. The amount of book that can be previewed varies from citation only to the entire book, depending on the agreement Google has with the publisher. Google Books Stores: Google has scanned in millions of Books creating a huge collection of free and for-sale eBooks. Due the expanded list of free available eBooks, likely the largest available anywhere. Note, however, these are often not proofed and are not the best quality. Typically they license out their free eBooks collection to other vendors as a way to get people to visit their stores. Some Google books use Adobe DRM but the free ones are usually DRM-free as well. The currently available for-sale books are obtained from publishers just like most other stores do. However, they also have some out of print but still in copyright books available which other stores typically do not. Google Book Search is a very useful tool for finding books according to keyword search. The Google database contains a massive library of scanned books. You can also use Google Book Search to find and download books in the public domain. Only books in the public domain can be downloaded. Books with intact copyright are available only for preview. The amount of book that can be previewed varies from citation only to the entire book, depending on the agreement Google has with the publisher. Google Books Stores: Google has scanned in millions of Books creating a huge collection of free and for-sale eBooks. Due the expanded list of free available eBooks, likely the largest available anywhere. Note, however, these are often not proofed and are not the best quality. Typically they license out their free eBooks collection to other vendors as a way to get people to visit their stores. Some Google books use Adobe DRM but the free ones are usually DRM-free as well. The currently available for-sale books are obtained from publishers just like most other stores do. However, they also have some out of print but still in copyright books available which other stores typically do not.

    7. Questions? Contact oshea@fdu.edu

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