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Of
particular interest to those with low budgets (school libraries, public
libraries, etc) but a keen interest in providing electronic resources for their
library, The 2011 Guide to Free or
Nearly-Free e-Books is offered
as a tool – an annotated listing of around 230 single titles,
collections, archives, gateways and search engines – for librarians and
others involved in book selection (e.g. teachers in schools) in all sectors –
school, further and higher education, public and special libraries – to
facilitate easy access to free e-books and e-book collections which can enhance
their digital library. The directory has a title and a general index.
The 2011 Guide to Free or
Nearly-Free e-Books. Edited by
Available via the Lulu button from
the publisher’s website http://www.ukeig.org.uk/content/publications
One of the problems which face all
librarians adding e-books to their collections is that of locating new titles:
there is no legal deposit for e-books and consequently there is no single place
from which new titles can be found. That
is true of commercially published e-books, it is most certainly also the case for free e-books…
and there are many thousands of free e-books available over the Internet, many
of which are of a quality such that librarians might wish to have them in their
collections.
Note: Some years ago UKeiG
published a series of well-received guides and handbooks including the Quick Guide to Online Commands, which
ran to several editions, the Quick
Guide to CD-ROM Networking and the CD-ROM Practical Guide for Information Professionals. After
a gap of some years, the Group has now published its first new guide.
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