Ebooks (digital books available online or through subscription) took two more steps forward this year as the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) encouraged publishers to migrate to the .epub format for its books. increasing uniformity or at least transferability between formats will increase readership and reduce costs associated with multiple players for each format.
Also Google and the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) have partnered to connect Google Book Search with WorldCat.org, the international card catalog online. This means that patrons will be able to search for a book and find it in nearby libraries or even scanned online.
This news is especially good for a small location like our because it increases our access to information from just our stacks to books located in many locations online and in other colleges.
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