L&LR staff blog

I’ve finally got a year’s worth of e-book usage data from both the ebrary and MyiLibrary platforms. I’ve been commenting on the growth in usage throughout the year (since Michelle formally launched ebrary Academic Complete back in January), so here (without comment) are all the stats from August 2008 and July 2009.   MyiLibrary (user [...]

Interesting visualisation of how the increase in our e-book usage is almost exactly offsetting the drop in issues. For every seven paper books issued between Aug ’08 – Feb ’09, roughly one session with an e-book took place. This includes data from both MyiLibrary and ebrary (which we only really launched in January ’09, so [...]

Hello, I am implementing a change later this afternoon in the way the HIP public catalogue on Horizon handles searching for ebooks. At the moment you can either choose a “subtab” in the Search screen which says “E-books”. This will simply list everything that matches the collection code “E-book”. Unfortunately this code only relates to [...]

We may not have even formally launched ebrary yet (though access is possible through the Portal, and the MARC records are on Horizon… somewhere…), but they’ve announced details of their new and improved user interface (UI). I can’t find it online, but I’m sure they won’t mind my reproducing their email here: ebrary Dear Customers [...]

Chris L. and I have made a couple of changes to the way e-book links work on the public catalogue. I’ve put a message on the public blog about the most obvious difference – MyiLibrary titles now open up in a new browser window – this seemed to be something that annoyed a lot of [...]

We’ll soon have a subscription to Ebrary, a collection of 38,200 ebooks to date.  The database offers simultaneous multi-user access and automatic access to newly added titles.  Take a look at what is available at http://www.ebrary.com/corp/collateral/en/Fact_Sheets/ebrary_factsheet_AC.pdf and watch out for more information in the near future. Di