Reinventing the Library in the 21 st century E-textbooks Gale Cengage Learning Alice Bellasich Sales Representative Sou

Reinventing the Library in the 21st century • E-textbooks • Gale Cengage Learning • Alice Bellasich • Sales Representative Southern Europe • Ankos 2011

Why E-Textbook Collections? Digitized bestselling Textbooks Always available Positive response from market

Why E-Textbook Collections? Response to market needs Students dissatisfied with availability (short loan model) No support for distance learners Vandalism

Library & professors Libraries purchases E- textbooks: professors coordinate with the library recommending E-textbooks titles Why E-Textbook Collections?

By purchasing E-textbooks, the library frees students from having to pay for their textbook Library offers additional service to Students E-textbooks as a REFERENCE tool Why E-Textbook Collections?

Key benefits Collections of bestseller textbooks multi-disciplinary Unlimited simultaneous users Access 24/7 remote access MARC records

Purchase model Full-text search across entire collections No reader required Notes Personal account Print Download Save in PDF Access via My I Library platform Key benefits

Core collection: 23 bestselling titles Psychology • Marketing • Communication & Media Government & Politics • Arts & Music • Pick-and-mix: 10 or 20 E-textbooks from the complete list of over 100 titles Collections

e-textbook selected highlights Calculus – James Stewart Introduction to Psychology - Atkinson & Hilgard's Gardener’s Art Through The Ages - Kleiner Economics – special edition– Mankiw/Taylor Marketing, European Edition - Dibb Strategic Management - Thompson Communicate! – Verderber Introductory Econometrics - Wooldridge

Q&As How does access work? Collections are available online on site license in perpetuity all students can access all textbooks at anytime and from anywhere Can students print/highlight/annotate? Students can highlight and annotate, cross-search across the collection and browse the book. There is also print functionality Is MyLibrary Athens/UK Federation Mgt authenticated? Yes, customers can authenticate via Athens and Shibboleth Can libraries integrate the collections into their catalogue (OPAC)? Yes, MyiLibrary provides MARC Records when the order is processed

Thank you • Alice.Bellasich@cengage.com

Reinventing the Library in the 21 st century E-textbooks Gale Cengage Learning Alice Bellasich Sales Representative Sou

Reinventing the Library in the 21 st century E-textbooks Gale Cengage Learning Alice Bellasich Sales Representative Sou

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Gale Cengage Learning

LEARNING FOR THE 21 st CENTURY

Redefining the Library for the 21 st century

Learning in the 21 st Century

Learning technologies in the 21 st century

21 st Century Learning

E-learning in 21 st century

Gale Cengage Learning Research Material

E-learning in the 21 st Century

E-LEARNING IN 21 ST CENTURY

e-learning in 21 st century

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Reinventing the American High School for the 21 st Century

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Gale Cengage Learning Literature Resource Center

21 st Century Library Learning

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Management and the 21 st Century Library

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E-learning in the 21 st Century

E-Learning in the 21 st Century

Intercultural Learning in the 21 st Century