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OLIB Canada, Australia and new
Zealand plan book coalition
From left: Peter Boehm (Canadian Ambassador to Germany), Suzanne Bossé (AECB),
Anne Latour (BPANZ), Joscelyn Woodley (New Zealand Deputy Head of Mission in
Germany), Maree McCaskill (APA) and Ian Kemish (Australian Ambassador to Germany).
Publishers from Canada, by about 120 publishers. Ideas
Australia and New Zealand discussed for how the three
have voted to pursue closer countries could work together
cooperation between their three included forming consortia
English-language markets. to bid for North American or
This was agreed at a summit British and Commonwealth
For two decades, OLIB has served a wide
held on the eve of the Frankfurt rights for books. This should
range of health, education, government and
Book Fair. The summit was help them to compete
corporate libraries with software that satisfies
organised by the Association with British and American
their library management needs. With the
for the Export of Canadian publishers. They also discussed
arrival of a new browser-based staff interface, Books (AECB), the Australian working together to address the
OCLC now offers the benefits of “software as a Publishers Association (APA) challenges presented by a digital
service” to OLIB customers.
and the Book Publishers future. A follow-up meeting
Association of New Zealand is expected to be held at the
We pride ourselves on offering a high standard
(BPANZ), and was attended London Book Fair.
of service and support, having a close working
relationship with our users—an essential
study challenges e-book
consideration when choosing to outsource the
application hosting and maintenance of such a
usage assumptions
vital part of your operation.
Initial observations from to students as anticipated.
the UK’s national e-book ‘Students say that the main
Take another look at OLIB Web and check off a
observatory are already attraction is that e-books
list of library management tasks at once.
challenging assumptions about within an academic setting
how students use e-books. are more accessible than print
According to Lorraine books, meaning that users can
Estelle CEO of JISC get at them wherever they are
Collections, in the first user and at whatever time they
survey, which received over like,’ explained Estelle.
22,000 responses, 62 per The UK’s first national
cent of students reported e-book observatory, which is
that they read online whilst funded by JISC, will provide
only 6 per cent said that they empirical data about the use of
print to read. The survey also e-books in 127 universities. The
indicated that interactivity outcomes of the research will be
may not be as important published in spring 2009.
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