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Weekly News Digest
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January 19, 2012 — In addition to this week's NewsBreak(s), the editors have compiled the Weekly News Digest, featuring stories from the week just past that you should know about. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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OverDrive Adds Non-English Ebooks to Library Catalog
OverDrive, a global digital distributor of ebooks and audiobooks to libraries and schools, added thousands of foreign-language materials in dozens of genres to its catalog of more than 700,000 digital titles. OverDrive’s online catalog, Content Reserve, which contains digital books in more than 50 languages, recently added popular and bestselling titles in Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Italian, and Turkish, with thousands of Spanish ebooks coming soon.Content is also available to libraries and schools from OverDrive in several other languages. More than 9,000 Chinese fiction, nonfiction, lifestyle, cooking, gardening, and self-improvement titles have been added to OverDrive’s broad ebook catalog. Additional languages already in the catalog include French, German, Greek, Japanese, Ukrainian, and many more. OverDrive provides digital distribution services for more than 18,000 libraries, retailers, and schools worldwide with support for Windows, Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Sony Reader, NOOK, Android, and BlackBerry. To find a library near you, visit http://search.overdrive.com. Source: OverDrive
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