I heard of one success story this morning with Internet Archive's "National
Emergency Library" from a colleague in my own library. I think it was a
case of the librarian who was answering a direct faculty member question
remembering to check that resource.
Lauren
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Lauren Corbett
Director of Resource Services, Z. Smith Reynolds Library
Wake Forest University
336-758-6136 ISNI: 0000 0003 5170 369X
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 12:54 PM Laura Turner <acqnet_at_lists.ala.org> wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I'm reaching out to see how other academic libraries are handling ebook
> requests for titles that are not available through traditional academic
> suppliers (Proquest, EBSCO, etc.). An example would be Bill Nye's
> Unstoppable, published by St. Martin's, so more of a popular non-fiction
> title. Specifically, Overdrive seems to have been a resource for that kind
> of material that is no longer available at our city public library, though
> they do have a couple of other platforms. Has your academic library worked
> with Overdrive?
>
> Also, has anyone begun pointing users to Internet Archive's "National
> Emergency Library" for access at least to scanned titles that you might
> already have in your print collection?
>
> Please feel free to respond off-list, if you prefer.
>
> Thanks,
> Laura
>
> *Laura Turner*
> *Head of Collections, Access, and Discovery*
> Helen K. and James S. Copley Library / University of San Diego
> 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 92110-2492
> Phone: (619) 260-2365 | lauraturner_at_sandiego.edu
>
Received on Mon Mar 30 2020 - 13:21:29 EDT