The future: how will e-books affect libraries and the culture of reading?
How will the e-book industry affect the conventional print-on-paper distribution chain — and what might it mean for libraries?
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How to make your own e-book
If you are interested in converting text to an e-book format, try Sigil!
Finding free e-books
Looking for free e-books? Here is a useful application and directory.
Published Guide to free e-books
The UK eInformation Group (UKeiG) – a special interest group of CILIP – has just published The 2011 Guide to Free or Nearly-Free e-Books – a 177-page annotated guide by Chris Armstrong (a KLA trainer). The guide lists over 230 sites offering either single titles or collections of titles, search engines and gateways for e-books. Each site [...]
Knowlead Course – Managing the Integration of E-Resources into Library Collections (KL-MIER)
The transition to electronic sources of information has recently gathered momentum and is affecting all subject areas and services to all levels of user: scientific and technical sources, community information, reading materials for children. The acquisition, provision and management of these e-resources leave librarians in all library and information sectors with a new and wide-ranging set of challenges. How can one find this material, how should it be managed in a modern library service? Come and find out.
The row about open-access journals continues
Is “open-access” publishing necessarily a good idea?