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Overdrive reports increase in ebook usage in libraries
In end-year figures for 2011, ebook platform Overdrive has reported triple-digit growth for 2011 'in ebook discovery and online reader visits at libraries and schools' worldwide. Revealing the st...
CAVAL acquires Languages Direct
Library services provider CAVAL has announced it has acquired Languages Direct. CAVAL acquired the specialist language library supply business from DA Information Services and said 'all Language...
UK parliamentary committee to examine library closures
The Culture, Media and Sport select committee, a cross-party committee in the UK parliament, will hold an inquiry into recent library closures in the UK next year. The committee is currently inviting ...
Penguin US pulls ebooks from OverDrive
Penguin US has confirmed that its latest titles will not be available for library lending in ebook editions via OverDrive due to 'security concerns', centred on OverDrive's recent hook-up with Amazon...
WAGUL selects Ingram as sole content supplier
The Western Australian Group of University Librarians (WAGUL) has announced that it has selected Ingram Content Group as its sole library content supplier. The move, which will allow the consortium to...
PLR and ELR face 'greatest challenge since their inception'
Australia's Public Lending Rights (PLR) and Educational Lending Rights (ELR) schemes face 'probably the greatest challenge since their inception' in the form of ebooks, according to the PLR committee'...
ALS launches ePlatform ebook lending service locally
Library supplier ALS has launched the ePlatform ebook lending service in Australia. Launched locally at the SWITCH public libraries conference in late November, ePlatform offers local content fro...
Amazon announces Kindle lending library
Amazon has launched a lending library of Kindle ebook titles, available only to members of its 'Prime' loyalty scheme in the US.
Kindle library lending goes live in US
Amazon has partnered with Overdrive to offer patrons of 11,000 US public libraries the ability to borrow ebooks via Kindle.
US court decision on 'first-sale doctrine' concerns libraries and second-hand booksellers
A copyright decision by a US court in a case about a student re-selling imported editions of textbooks may have wide-ranging effects on the 'first-sale doctrine' that could affect libraries and second...
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