The Seybold Report

Fort Vancouver Regional Library Chooses Ingram as Primary Content Supplier

The 13-library Fort Vancouver Regional Library District has selected Ingram Content Group as its comprehensive library content supplier. More than 2 million people visit the librariesto take advantage of a collection of more than 800,000 items including world-class research databases. Ingram will specifically become the primary vendor of adult fiction print materials to the district. more 

Ingram and Better World Books Announce Library Return Program

Ingram Content Group and Better World Books have announced a new program allowing libraries to trade in old books for credit toward new content acquisitions through Ingram library accounts. Better World Books sells surplus books from more than 3,000 libraries and 500 bookstores on a consignment basis, with a portion of each book sold funding literacy projects in the United States and worldwide. Since its founding in 2002 it has generated more than $10 million in unrestricted funding for libraries and literacy. more

OverDrive Demonstrates WIN Catalog at Frankfurt Book Fair

OverDrive will demonstrate its new WIN (Want It Now) Catalog this week at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The catalog, an addition to OverDrive’s WIN platform for its network of 15,000 libraries worldwide, will provide samples and links to national and local booksellers to library Web site visitors who want to order a title. The Catalog will also provide complete long-tail collections of e-book and audiobook titles in publishers’ catalogs. more

3M Announces Cloud Library System

3M Library Systems will introduce the 3M Cloud Library System e-book lending service for libraries at the American Library Association’s annual conference. The system is designed to allow libraries to offer their patrons a single system for discovering, borrowing, and reading e-books that includes digital content and in-library hardware, as well as borrowing and reading applications. more