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Binge-Watch All Week With RBdigital
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by Brandi Scardilli
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In addition to updating its app, Recorded Books has become the first vendor to launch an unlimited streaming video service for libraries. Patrons can use RBdigital to binge-watch streaming videos for free by clicking on the app's 7-day access pass. With this model, libraries are paying only pennies per view.
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Publishers Partner With ResearchGate to Improve Sharing of Scholarly Content
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Springer Nature, Cambridge University Press, Thieme, and ResearchGate teamed up to make it easier to legally share academic journal articles on ResearchGate's collaboration platform.
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OverDrive and SirsiDynix Get Library Cards Into More Hands
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OverDrive integrated its Instant Digital Card (IDC) service into SirsiDynix. IDC creates a digital library card in less than 30 seconds to give people access to ebooks and audiobooks through OverDrive's websites and Libby app.
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Digital Science Rewards Blockchain Innovators
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Digital Science announced the recipients of its one-time Blockchain Catalyst Grant for "any project implementing Blockchain in a scholarly or scientific context, especially those that addressed the dissemination of research," according to the blog post.
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Innovative Celebrates Library Heroes
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Innovative created a Library Heroes Series as part of its blog that highlights library staffers "who are going above and beyond to serve their communities and extend the role of the library to meet the needs of a changing culture."
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FlatWorld Provides Free-With-Purchase Homework Platform
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College textbook publisher FlatWorld introduced FlatWorld Homework, an assignments platform that is available at no additional cost after the purchase of specific FlatWorld textbooks.
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Patron-Relationship Management System Helps Libraries Get to the Point
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by Terry Ballard
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In the brief time that Patron Point has been in business, it has targeted well-established public libraries that want to fine-tune their marketing. This turnkey program works with data from the library's existing automated services, creating systematic email and web campaigns and value-added analytics.
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Last Seen in Sea Isle
by Jane Kelly (A Meg Daniels Mystery, #7)
Meg Daniels should know by now that wherever she goes, mystery follows. Her fiancé is taking classes at Stockton University and has befriended Grace Grant, a fellow later-in-life student. Under false pretenses, Grace asks Meg to visit her lavish beachfront house in Sea Isle City, New Jersey, on the same weekend she’s hosting a reunion of pals from the summer of 1969. Meg discovers that Grace is hoping she’ll track down Guy—last name unknown—who disappeared from Grace’s life on the day of the moon landing.
2026 | ISBN: 978-1-940091-16-7 | 226 pp/trade paperback | $16.95
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