New Holds Feature Allows Users to Reserve Checked-Out Content

NetLibrary offers more than 140,000 PDF titles that are compatible with increasingly popular eBook readers, including all four Sony Digital Readers (PRS-300,505,600 and 700BC), as well as the COOL-ER. Soon NetLibrary expects to announce compatibility with even more eBook readers. Additionally, these titles can be downloaded to laptops and PCs for offline reading. An Adobe Content Server (ACS) license is required for downloading, and a one-year license is $350. Libraries can receive a complimentary ACS license with a purchase.

Lists or recommended (text-intensive PDF) content are available on TitleSelect, in the Special Offers section, under “Fiction Titles for Mobile and Offline Reading” and “Non-Fiction Titles for Mobile and Offline Reading” at http://extranet.netlibrary.com/titleselect/collection.asp?list_id=21.

More information is available from OCLC at their website: http://www.oclc.org/us/en/ebooks/go_portable/, or call 1-800-848-5800 and follow the prompts, or by e-mail at support@oclc.org .

OCLC offers you a way to boost your buying power and build your eBook collection. NetLibrary Shared eBook Collections include titles hand-picked by OCLC collection development librarians.

A shared collection is a great way to start or add to your eBook collection. You’ll gain access to hundreds of frontlist eBooks by combining your buying power with that of other participating libraries. And the great thing is, with continued participation and feedback from the membership, the collection keeps growing!

With the OCLC Shared Collections, you’ll benefit from:

• eBooks available 24/7 via the Internet. Allows users to self serve on any computer with Web access.
• Collections developed specifically for libraries like yours. Projected list of 1,000–1,500 titles gives you access to content from leading publishers such as McGraw-Hill, Oxford University Press, Taylor & Francis and Facts on File.
• Real-time usage reports. Available anytime online.
• No physical inventory to manage. Check-outs and check-ins handled automatically.
• Full OCLC-MARC record sets. Yours at no extra cost.

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Order your collection by December 31, 2009 to take advantage of current low rates. Please contact us for details on this exceptional collection at 1-800-898-6252, ext. 3800 or www.oclc.org/info/sharedcollections

OCLC NetLibrary eBook printing has been updated. The enhanced printing functionality allows users to print more than one page at a time. The number of pages a user can print depends on whether a user is logged in to NetLibrary (with a username and password) or is a generic user (a user not logged in to NetLibrary, e.g. a user at a computer workstation in a library). This distinction was made with the security of our content and our publishers in mind. Details on the differences are outlined here.
Questions? Please contact OCLC’s Support department by phone at 1-800-848-5800 and follow the prompts (menu selections 1-4-2-1 for FirstSearch and WorldCat.org), or by e-mail at support@oclc.org, for more information about this update.

OCLC has released the new NetLibrary Media Center, a full-featured desktop application that allows library patrons to easily search, manage, transfer and listen to eAudiobooks from their local library. The free software application allows users to connect to NetLibrary, and then download and begin listening to eAudiobooks with just one click.

The Media Center combines familiar user functions available from NetLibrary’s Web-based platform to browse, search and check out materials, and adds enhanced features and functionality—such as a full-feature audio player; seamless download to a portable listening device; and other features designed to improve the patron’s experience with NetLibrary eAudiobooks.

In order to provide users with access to the Media Center, libraries will need to complete a Media Center Activation Request and return to NetLibrary. Activation requests are available at:

http://www.oclc.org/audiobooks/media_center/Media_Center_Activation_Request.pdf

OCLC will accept activation request forms through December 31, 2008. As of December 19th, 2008, librarians will be able to turn the NetLibrary Media Center on themselves through the Library Resource Center (LRC). Instructions on how librarians can activate the NetLibrary Media Center through the LRC will be available in the near future.

Additional resources, including an online demo, Media Center brochure and updated eAudiobooks User Guide can be accessed below from the Media Center main page at http://www.oclc.org/audiobooks/media_center/default.htm.

OCLC’s NetLibrary has announced its eBook titles are now certified through Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks, which will ensure accessibility and support for NetLibrary eBooks through Serials Solutions e-resource access and management services, such as 360 Link, 360 Search, and 360 MARC Updates . Read the full news release on OCLC’s website.

Other Nylink partners whose products are certified through Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks include: Chadwyck-Healey, CSA Illumina, Emerald Group, H.W. Wilson, Oxford University Press, Project MUSE, and ProQuest. Serials Solutions is also a Nylink partner.

Now through December 31, 2007, NetLibrary will be offering Elseiver titles at a discounted rate. If you bill your NetLibrary purchase through Nylink, you save an additional 5%!

If a library purchases:
100-249 titles, you Save 25%
250-499 titles, you Save 30%
500-1,000 titles, you Save 40%
1,001 and more, you save 50%
Looking to aquire the entire list of Elseiver titles? You can save 60%!

Additionally, NetLibrary has compiled subject collections of Elseiver titles. If you purchase a subject collection you will save 50%!

Subject Collections are available in:
Architecture, Biomedical, Business, Chemistry, Computing, Earth Sciences, Engineering Materials Science, Film / Animation / Theater, Finance, Forensics, Graphics, Math / Physics,
Media Technology, Security, and Tourism.

Remember, when you order your Elseiver titles note on the order form that you want to by billed through Nylink for an additional 5% off!