If you have not already received live, web-based training on the new UI, we encourage you to sign up at https://tinyurl.com/3o65ey. Additional training materials are forthcoming, and a list of frequently asked questions is available at https://about.proquest.com/en/products-services/ebooks-main/.
Join us at ALA
We will also be demonstrating the new UI at ALA Midwinter, January 23-28, in Denver, CO, USA. You and your colleagues are welcome to join us for breakfast, where we will also show our new on-demand MARC features (please see the press release at https://about.proquest.com/en/products-services/ebooks-main/) and discuss how you can use our e-publishing system—hosted on our servers or yours—to distribute your own digitized materials online. Everyone who attends is automatically entered into a drawing for a free iPod touch!
Date: Saturday, January 24, 2009
Time: 8am to 10am
Location: Hyatt Regency Denver at the Convention Center (Capitol Ballroom 5/6), 650 15th Street, Denver, CO 80202
To RSVP, please go to https://tinyurl.com/89gj2q
Help plan ebrary's next survey!
Bring your ideas and suggestions for ebrary's next survey to a luncheon led by Allen McKiel, Dean of Library and Media Services at Western Oregon University. In the past two years, ebrary has conducted three well-received surveys on various aspects of e-resource perception, usage and need among librarians, faculty and students around the world. Participants will discuss possible topics, questions, and other aspects for the new survey, and will be cited as contributors in the final results.
As an introduction to the discussion, Dr. McKiel will present results from ebrary's latest 2008 Global Student E-book Survey, which was completed by 6,492 students. Their responses reflect student e-resource usage preferences, patterns, and perceptions. During his presentation, Dr. McKiel will discuss key findings and compare them to responses from faculty and librarians in the earlier surveys. The presentation will be interactive and preface the discussion of the viability, content, and focus of the next survey. To sign up for complimentary survey results, please go to https://tinyurl.com/4fc5gh.
Date: Saturday, January 24, 2009
Time: 10:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Brown Palace Hotel (Onyx Room), 321 17th St., Denver, CO 80202
To RSVP, please go to https://tinyurl.com/96lp5e.
Discover New Technologies for Digital Libraries
At ALA's Technology Showcase, ebrary CEO Christopher Warnock will unveil new and upcoming technology from ebrary for improving digital libraries with multiple sources of content. In addition to our new UI and QuickView Reader, Mr. Warnock will demonstrate ISIS (Integrated, Scalable Information System), a licensable technology that enables new methods of discovery, multiple views of search results, and sophisticated research tools, in addition to enabling libraries to host, submit and distribute e-content of their own.
All participants will receive an ebrary T-shirt and also be entered in a drawing for a free iPod touch, conducted at the end of the presentation.
Date: Monday, January 26, 2009
Time: 10:40am to 11:10am
Location: Colorado Convention Center (Mesa Theater), 700 14th Street, Denver, CO 80202
No RSVP is required.
We hope to meet with you at ALA. Please stop by our booth (#2404).
Sincerely,
The ebrary team
ebrary, 318 Cambridge Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA