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Academic Librarians — Register for Ebooks and Academics: Video Presentations and Discussion

Register today for Ebooks and Academics: Video Presentations and Discussion!

Academic Librarians from all Colleges in Central MN

St. Cloud State University New Welcome Center (easy parking)

Friday, November 30, 9:00AM-12:30 PM

Academic librarians, please join your colleagues from around the region for this local event with outstanding national content!! Attendees may include personnel from: College of St. Bens/Johns, Rasmussen College, St. Cloud Technical & Community College, SCSU, Cambridge Campus of ARCC, and Pine Technical College. Recently, CMLE staff participated in the virtual SEFLIN eBook conference called eBooks: Benefits, Challenges, and the Future, and paid for group access to the recordings of the five national presenters.  We selected the messages of national ebook experts, Sue Polanka and Chad Mairn, as being of most interest to you for this first event.  Besides listening to their best thinking on ebooks, we would like to offer this opportunity to network informally and discuss local ebook developments and ideas too. CMLE is hosting and arranging this free event.

Come ready to listen, engage, and discuss!! Light refreshments will be served.

Agenda

9:00-9:15              Introductions & logistics

9:15 – 10:15        Sue Polanka (Head of Reference and Instruction, Wright State Universities Libraries)– eBook Licensing and Access: Now and in the Future

This session will analyze barriers to ebook lending models currently available for libraries including licensing, packaging, DRM, use models, and pricing. Trends in the publishing industry such as self-publishing, enhanced ebooks and digital textbooks, which may impact libraries, will be highlighted, demonstrating new opportunities for the future.

10:15-10:45         Group Discussion

10:45 – 11:00      Break

11:00 – 12:00      Chad Mairn (Information Services Librarian and adjunct professor at St. Petersburg College & Chief Technology Officer, Novare Library Services) – Getting the Most from Your eBook Readers: Tips and Tricks

New examples of electronic reading material — e-books, e-magazines, e-textbooks — are appearing every day as well as devices and software to read them on. Accessing, transferring, and interacting with electronic text via Nooks, Kindles, and other e-reading devices, however, can be complicated. Join Chad Mairn as he offers tips and tricks for library staff to help their patrons use their e-reading devices to their full potential. This session will include information on: dedicated and non-dedicated e-readers, new and innovative e-reading devices and software, current and upcoming e-formats, digital Rights Management, privacy issues, and emerging technologies impacting reading in a digital age.

12:00 – 12:30      Group Discussion

Not enough discussion time? Consider walking to Bo Diddleys, Pacific Wok, Noodles & Company, or Chipotle for lunch on your own and continued conversation/debate with colleagues.

Registration is requested. Deadline is end of day on Wednesday, November 28. Register at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/EbooksAcademics

Kate Bessey will be contacting all registrants by Thursday, November 29 with directions and parking instructions.

We hope you’ll join us! Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.

P.S. Not to worry, similar events will be held in the near future for our other library types as well! Be on the look out!

Academic, General, Public, School Media Specialist, Special

CMLE Discounts are Ready

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We have eleven book companies participating in the discount program this year, and eight of them are discounting e-books!  Please check your inbox for an  email attachment with all of the discount details. These discounts provide cost savings to 319 academic, school, public, and special libraries. The eleven participating book  companies this year are listed below, the companies with e-book discounts are blue! Don’t forget, you must mention the promo code with each company to get the described discounts. Please let me know if you have any problems using these discounts, or if the list does not include a company you would like to suggest for inclusion next year. These discounts are a perk to you as part of your free membership as a CMLE member library. Send email to papost@stcloudstate.edu with your input. Thanks!

Didn’t get the attachment? Send an email to cmle@stcloudstate.edu and use subject line, Discount Promo Codes Needed.

Abdo, Baker & Taylor, Brodart, Follett, Gumdrop, Ingram, Mackin, Rainbow,

Sebco, Scholastic, and Usborne

Academic, General, Public, School Media Specialist, Special

CMLE Discounts are Coming!

Have you been wondering why you have not seen the CMLE discounts yet? Are you wondering if our discounts might ever include e-books? Well, wonder no more! We listened to our members, and have taken the extra time and care to get e-book discounts this year too.

We have eleven book companies participating in the discount program this year, and seven of them are discounting e-books! Which ones will discount e-books? You will know within a week when you receive an email with all of the details including the special code you need to use in order to receive the discount. Drum roll please…..the eleven participating companies this year are:

Abdo, Baker & Taylor, Brodart, Follett, Gumdrop, Ingram, Mackin, Rainbow,

Sebco, Scholastic, and Usborne

Academic

Register today for ARLD Dialogue! E-books in Academic Libraries: Successes, Challenges, and Useful Strategies

Got issues with your library’s use of e-books? Got some solutions that work for your students or faculty? Just want to learn more about the topic? Then please join us for the next ARLD Dialogue, held Thursday, November 8, noon to 1:00pm, at the Roseville Public Library.

ARLD Dialogues are free informal discussions held over lunch. This dialogue is hosted by Julie Kelly of the University of Minnesota’s Magrath Library. Please come with ideas and questions.

Box lunches are provided and registration is capped at 22 preregistered people. Register now to reserve a spot.

Questions? Contact Julie Kelly at Magrath Library, University of Minnesota, jkelly@umn.edu or 612-624-4781.

Academic, Public, School Media Specialist, Special

Amazon Launches Kindle Management Service for Schools

According to SmartBrief on Ed Tech, Amazon unveiled Whispercast, a service that lets schools manage a fleet of Kindle tablets and e-readers from one website. The service is part of the company’s push to get the Kindle into more classrooms. It allows educators set up and monitor students’ user accounts and limit what students can do with the device, the company said. San Jose Mercury News (Calif.)/Reuters (free registration) (10/17)

Hmmmmm….am wondering how public and academic libraries will fit into this scheme. Let us know in comments if you know or have thoughts….