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Libraries, like most other organizations, face increasing pressures to strengthen their impact and continually optimize how they allocate resources. Collecting data, detecting patterns, and creating visualizations that can be readily [...]

Despite increased interest in digital and electronic content, libraries continue to manage print materials as a core part of their work. While much of the new opportunities lie in digital [...]

A collaboration between DPLA, NYPL, and LYRASIS is working to develop a new alternative for public library e-book lending. (1) This infrastructure includes an open source repository, a mobile e-book [...]

Libraries have a strong interest in technologies able to improve patron access to information resources. A variety of products have been developed to enable groups of libraries to collaborate to [...]

In a move that places it in direct competition with established competitors, 3M Library Systems will launch a new service called the 3M Cloud Library. 3M aims to provide libraries [...]

No library, even one that is most generously funded, is able to acquire all the resources of potential interest to its community of patrons. Yet, libraries respond in any way [...]

October 1, 2013. Overdrive announced that the all-new Circulation APIs are available on the OverDrive Developer Portal. The Circulation APIs will allow approved partners to request check outs, downloads, holds, [...]

The current information and technology landscape has had a profound impact on the nature of reference services in libraries. In times when almost any factual question can be handled by [...]

The lending of e-books continues to be an activity of critical interest in public libraries. As e-books gain ever wider popularity by the general public, libraries have been steadily working [...]