ebrary - mitchell college
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Mitchell College LibraryJeff Dickens
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What does Ebrary do for library patrons? • Multiple simultaneous users can use the same book.
• Ability to organize books on personal “bookshelves.”
• Provides highlighting and note writing features, which can be undone, searched (as can the book), and organized within Ebrary.
• Users can look up words, places, and people in reference works without leaving Ebrary.
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How does Ebrary work?
There are two ways to find Ebrary books:
1. Searching the library catalog (load Ebrary MARC records)
2. Searching Ebrary directly (hyperlink somewhere on Website).
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Ebrary offers many of the same search features that are found in article databases
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How does Ebrary work?
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How does Ebrary work?
There are two parts to scanning your search result within the book:
1. The Table of Contents.
2. The pages of the book.
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How does Ebrary work?
Ebrary partners with other vendors to provide direct access to reference works, including Merriam Webster’s Dictionary
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How does Ebrary work?
Ebrary allows you to look up words, concepts, places, people, and much more without leaving the page you are on in the book.
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How does Ebrary work?
Searching and reference can be done without an account. Note taking and highlighting, however, require creating a bookshelf.
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How does Ebrary work?
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How does Ebrary work?
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What does Ebrary provide for library patrons?
• searching both the content of the book, as well as the content of notes and highlights.
• highlights and notes.
• looking up words in a number of reference works.
• simultaneous access to and multiple bookshelf locations for books
• bookshelves that can be organized using folders.
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Ebrary Administration
The Ebrary Partner Site:
• Usage statistics: provides site activity, title, and counter reports.
• MARC records: info on MARC updates, which are sent monthly directly to cataloger. Also, the option to update MARC data manually.
• EBOP: titles can be reviewed and ordered directly from Ebrary.
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Ebrary AdministrationEbrary Content:
• Subscription Content• Academic Complete is about 47,000 titles.• Non-owned titles, thus can be dropped, and more can be added, at
will of publisher.
• Perpetual “Purchased” Content• SUPO: single simultaneous access. • MUPO: multiple simultaneous access. Always 150% of publisher’s
price.
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Ebrary AdministrationPerpetual Content:
• Access fee only if subscription content or subject collection is dropped.
• Ebrary will “give a break” on purchases from some publishers, namely Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Oxford, and Cambridge.
• Some books jobbers, like YBP, allow purchase of titles in electronic formats, like Ebrary.
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Ebrary AdministrationSingle Sign-on (recommendation from personal experience)
• WAM proxy in III causes problems with Ebrary’s bookshelf feature.
• Allows off-campus patrons to login using their library barcode, as they do with WAM.
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In conclusion, Ebrary offers advantages to…
• library patrons: • multiple user access to individual books. • off-campus access to bibliographic research. • no “overdue fees” for books on bookshelf (no “check-out”).
• librarians: • reduces shelf space for physical books. • easy to purchase and load. • no re-shelving.