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Booki.sh Goes Into OverDrive
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by Dan Tonkery
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The little startup from Melbourne, Australia, Booki.sh is joining the rapidly growing Cleveland-based OverDrive, the leading distributor of ebooks and digital audiobooks to libraries. While they are separated by some 10,000 miles, the two companies are in sync in terms of developing ebook services for libraries. This acquisition is part of OverDrive's long-term strategy to build a range of services for libraries. Since 1986, OverDrive has been focused on becoming a leading multichannel distributor of ebooks, digital audiobooks, music, and video.
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3M Cloud Library Announces Integration With Polaris ILS
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3M Library Systems and Polaris Library Systems announced a strategic partnership that will make browsing and checking out ebooks simpler than ever. The 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Service will now be integrated with the Polaris Integrated Library System (ILS), allowing patrons at participating libraries to discover both physical and digital collections from wherever they are browsing—the library's own public access catalog (PAC) or from the 3M Cloud Library applications.
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CIVICTechnologies Launches CommunityConnect
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CIVICTechnologies, a provider of market segmentation and geographic information system (GIS) data and solutions to libraries, announces the launch of CommunityConnect following successful pilot projects at several libraries including Las Vegas-Clark County Library District in Nevada, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library in Kansas, and Skokie Public Library in Illinois, among others.
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EBSCO Publishing Extends Partnership With Accessible Archives Inc.
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EBSCO Publishing expanded its partnership with Accessible Archives, Inc. to include American County Histories to 1900: New England and The Civil War: Parts V and IV in EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). The agreement allows metadata from these two resources to be added to the Base Index of EDS.
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Update on Political Fact-Check Websites
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by Paula J. Hane
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As I write this, the U.S. is in the midst of a hotly contested GOP presidential primary. The countdown to "Super Tuesday" is 6 days, and the countdown to the election is 251 days. Some days, I think I've just had enough election news. It's exhausting for a voting individual to examine all the claims and statements made by the candidates. How do we keep up with who said what and check to see if it contradicts their earlier statements or twists the facts/statistics? Hardly a day goes by that I don't see an article that questions or outright refutes something said in a speech or debate. But which sites can we believe?
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