Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: March 2, 2010
The British Library and Amazon have recently announced a new agreement to make 65,000 of their 19th Century literature titles available free-of-charge through the Amazon Kindle Store. I see this partnership as a big step towards the Kindle becoming the eReader of choice within the UK. Have a look at the press release at: http://www.bl.uk/news/2010/pressrelease20100223a.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BritishLibraryPressReleases+%28British+Library+Press+Releases%29 [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: January 29, 2010
Back in July,the American Library Journal reported that Arizona State University was being sued over their use of the Kindle eReader and the problems encountered by blind students with using the menus on the Kindle. They, along with other US Universities, were piloting their use for distributing eTextbooks to students, but because the menus on [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: January 21, 2010
Since colleges started getting the ebrary system for their eBooks for FE collection, there have been quite a number of problems installing the ebrary Reader for the additional functionality which this provides. The good news is that for this particular collection the ebrary Reader will soon no longer be required. See Anna Vernon’s message below [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: December 22, 2009
eReaders are evolving into something that looks really exciting. Take a look at this article from the New York Times that my colleague Lisa Valentine sent me: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/business/06novel.html?_r=2&th=&adxnnl=1&emc=th&adxnnlx=1260101016-RPQ1rGnExgyeeGn7HWJ8lg The enTourage eDGe looks stunning and should really move eReader technology on in leaps and bounds. There’s a demo on the enTourage website: http://www.entourageedge.com/ It’s not even [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: November 18, 2009
At the UKSG E-Resources for FE Seminar I gave a presentation looking at whether libraries and learning resource centres are providing learner centred environments. My aim for the presentation was to get you all thinking. Over the last few months I’ve been talking to Librarians putting forward observations and reflections, on how libraries could respond to the [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: November 16, 2009
Did you know that you can customise how the ebrary eBook library looks? Top Bar It is possible to customise the top bar of your ebrary site to show whatever you wish; provided that you ensure that all links open in a new window and that the new page is 42px high. This page can [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: October 30, 2009
Now that colleagues are starting to use ebrary, it has come to light that to use the ebrary Reader (the one that includes speech), you may need to ask your technical team to set it up for you on the network. Here are all the details you need which have been provided direct from ebrary. We [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: October 12, 2009
If the Sunday Times is to be believed (ingear 11/10/09), Kindle may be the eBook reader of my dreams … but not yet Amazon is making it’s massively hyped eReader “Kindle” available to the UK from October 19 to very mixed reviews. Take a look at the comments on the Guardian website for example: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/07/amazon-ebooks [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: September 9, 2009
Following on from this morning’s blog, my FE Curriculum colleague Anita Holt has very kindly passed me the Word document below that lists all the books in the Nintendo DS 100 Classic Book Collection and has included whether they are on the recommended reading lists for the GCSE and/or A Level Curricula. DS 100 Classic [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: September 9, 2009
Well, I’m disappointed. I’ve tried the JISC eBook for FE collection on the Nintendo DSi, and confirmed what my colleague Angela from Bury College mentioned to me that they are not viewable. Out of the box the DSi doesn’t come with the browser. To get the browser you firstly need to use the built in wireless facility [...]
