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 evolving [...]
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 be hosted [...]
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 require [...]
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 [...]
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 Book [...]
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 to [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: September 1, 2009
JISC TechDis, the JISC funded Advisory Service in the fields of accessibility and inclusion, have been working for some time now on assessing the accessibility of eBooks and eBook readers and have produced a lot of guidance for anyone purchasing these products. Take a look at the links below. They are extremely informative.
eBooks and Accessibility [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: August 21, 2009
Interesting news from Sony about opening up their eBook format. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8201093.stm This should make the Sony eBook store more appealing for content for all eBook readers. However, I still think that because the Sony reader has it’s own proprietary software (that looks a bit like iTunes) it limits how the devices can be used [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: August 18, 2009
There has been quite a lot of discussions about the JISC FE eBook deal centred around authentication issues. It came to light soon after launching that it was not possible to authenticate to ebrary (the eBook host) through more than one mechanism. Therefore it was not possible for organisations to retain IP authentication for on-site [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: July 15, 2009
Interesting article that @notlob has forwarded to me. There is a lot of interest in the use of eBooks in NW FE Colleges at present – primarily due to the release of the JISC eBooks for FE. Only the other day I was asked whether any of the eBook readers will work with the eBrary [...]
