reinventing the library in the 21 st century e-textbooks gale cengage learning alice bellasich sales...
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Reinventing the Library in the 21st century
E-textbooksGale Cengage Learning
Alice BellasichSales Representative Southern EuropeAnkos 2011
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Why E-Textbook Collections?
Digitized bestselling Textbooks
Always available
Positive response from market
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Why E-Textbook Collections?Response to market needs
Students dissatisfied with availability (short loan model)No support for distance learners
Vandalism
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Library & professors
Libraries purchases E- textbooks:
professors coordinate with thelibrary recommendingE-textbooks titles
Why E-Textbook Collections?
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By purchasing E-textbooks, the libraryfrees students from having to payfor their textbook
Library offers additional service toStudents
E-textbooks as a REFERENCE tool
Why E-Textbook Collections?
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Key benefitsCollections of bestseller textbooksmulti-disciplinaryUnlimited simultaneous usersAccess 24/7 remote accessMARC records
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Purchase modelFull-text search across entire collectionsNo reader requiredNotesPersonal accountPrintDownloadSave in PDFAccess via My I Library platform
Key benefits
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Core collection: 23 bestselling titlesPsychology Marketing Communication & MediaGovernment & Politics Arts & Music
Pick-and-mix: 10 or 20 E-textbooks from the complete list of over 100 titles Collections
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e-textbook selected highlightsCalculus James Stewart
Introduction to Psychology - Atkinson & Hilgard's
Gardeners Art Through The Ages - Kleiner
Economics special edition Mankiw/Taylor
Marketing, European Edition - Dibb
Strategic Management - Thompson
Communicate! Verderber
Introductory Econometrics - Wooldridge
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Q&AsHow does access work?Collections are available online on site license in perpetuity all students can access all textbooks at anytime and from anywhere
Can students print/highlight/annotate?Students can highlight and annotate, cross-search across the collection and browse the book. There is also print functionality
Is MyLibrary Athens/UK Federation Mgt authenticated? Yes, customers can authenticate via Athens and Shibboleth
Can libraries integrate the collections into their catalogue (OPAC)?Yes, MyiLibrary provides MARC Records when the order is processed
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Thank you
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