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"Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of nearly 2,800 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twenty learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan's Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. HEB is available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers"

Is there a difference in the way the brain takes in or absorbs information when it is presented electronically versus on paper? Does the reading experience change, from retention to comprehension, depending on the medium?

"First off, where are the books? There are almost none left on the first floor. Thousands of volumes have been moved to the upper floors, along with the circulation desk. Some have been jettisoned."

facebook apps for online education

facebook apps for online education including books iRead, Jstor search

"Libraries are simultaneously more relevant than ever and less able to define their role in the digital age, according to recent articles, reports and an upcoming conference. Here's a look at a number of summer stories that explore how public and private libraries are addressing technological shifts while meeting the needs of their communities. "

Based on the book, Understanding by Design (Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe) this article summarizes the process of designing courses as "backward process." The process has 3 basic steps - 1) Identify desired results, 2)Determine Acceptable Evidence, and 3) Plan Learning Experiences

eBook research

About a company committed to a financially sustainable model for ope source textbooks

"did Apple just destroy the US tablet market"

Not sure this is on target, but good questions to ask

SOPHIE is an open source tool maintained by USC that allows for creating and reading rich media documents in a networked environment. Sophie authors can easily combine a variety of media - text, images, video and audio into a sophisticated multimedia work.

Audible is a wonderful site for finding/downloading 1000's of digital audiobooks. This site is powered by Amazon and works on most mobile devices

Course Smart is a great site for students looking to find a textbook in eBook format. This site is geared toward higher ed students and they can browse by category and top content.

Freely accessible eBooks - AND even better, endorsed by BU libraries.

I don't think the Kindle is the panacea of access as this article suggests - some healthy collection development in prior years may have made the device less of a "savior" for research. "We have to work with what we have" is a cop-out, in my opinion. What do you think?

Interview with the author of A Better Pencil

Moglue is a new program, available for Mac and Windows, that enables you to create interactive ebooks and publish them to Android and iOS devices. Your ebooks created with Moglue can include videos, images, and audio files that you import from your computer. Moglue supports a wide variety of file formats for image and video content. When you have completed constructing your ebook you can publish it to the Moglue bookstore where it can be downloaded onto your Android or iOS device.