When Books Go Digital…

Elizabeth B. ThomsenNOBLE: North of Boston Library Exchange

February 28, 2012

Downloadable ebooks and audiobooks Primarily aimed at public libraries and

schools Download to computer, ebook reader, MP3

player, smartphone, tablet Added Kindle support in September Business is booming, especially since

Christmas!

OverDrive

Academic, searchable collections of ebooks Typically used for research rather than

reading cover-to-cover Provides access to a much larger collection

of books than the library could own and manage in print

More accessible to students Ebooks as database?

Ebrary and Academic ebook Sets

Project Gutenberg ManyBooks.net What students (and anybody) can do with

raw text: annotated editions, literary mash-ups, adaptations, illustrated editions

Public Domain eBooks

Internet Archive

Screenshot from Internet Archive Book

“Riverbank”

Google Web Search

Google Books

Google Book Search

New Books, Old Magazines

Jet Magazine

My Books

Clip and Embed Tools

Embed in a Website

Advanced Search

Search My Library

Ngram for a Single Phrase

Ngram for Two Names

Ngram for Three Phrases

Elizabeth Thomsen et@noblenet.org

Questions?