1. Free e-books for
Everybody!
Well-established
resources for every kind of library

2. 2nd Friday Series
Casual talks on hot topics

3. Using this software

4. Discussion
• What types of e-book resources do you
have at your library?

5. Discussion
• How do you use e-books?
• How do your patrons use e-books?

6. Advantages
• What do you and your users love about e-
books?

7. Challenges?
• What aspects of e-books are difficult to
work with?

8. Focus for today
• We will learn more about excellent free
e-book resources for all types of libraries,
and how these e-book collections can be
used to serve our users.

9. The Hathi Trust
• http://www.hathitrust.org/
• Metadata Available:
• http://bit.ly/ae1P5r
• Devices: Not applicable
• Downloads: “Users affiliated with HathiTrust partner institutions
are able to download books in the public domain in their entirety. Please
see information about logging in under Authentication/Login above. Users
who are not affiliated with HathiTrust partner institutions can download
single-page PDFs. There is significant overlap of volumes in HathiTrust and
Google Book Search and if a book is "full view" in HathiTrust, it is possible
that a PDF of the entire book can be downloaded from Google Book
Search.”

10. The Hathi Trust
• 8,635,153 total volumes
4,736,278 book titles
210,081 serial titles
3,022,303,550 pages
387 terabytes
102 miles
7,016 tons
2,302,343 volumes (~27% of total)

11. Project Gutenberg
• Access: http://www.gutenberg.org/
• Total titles: Over 100,000 free e-books
• MARC Records available:
• http://bit.ly/k75joB
• Devices: 33,000 titles for use with ipad, Kindle, Sony
Reader, iphone, Nook and others
• Mobile reader device “How To:”
• http://bit.ly/7aiFnZ

12. Google Books/e-
books/Magazines
• http://books.google.com/
• Thousands of books for purchase, many public domain
books for use
• http://books.google.com/ebooks
• Thousands of books for purchase
• Some books for devices
• Many free books available
• Supported devices/platforms:
• iOS (iphone, ipad), Nook, Sony, Android

13. Google Magazines
• Thousands of titles available
• Sublime (Time, Life)
• Ridiculous (Weekly World News)

14. Internet Archive
• e-book and text archive
• http://www.archive.org/details/texts
• Approaching 3 million titles
• “…a wide range of fiction, popular books,
children's books, historical texts and
academic books.”

15. Internet Archive
• Devices: Depends on the collection it
comes from in the archive, but many of the
texts do have an e-format option

16. International Children’s
Digital Library
• http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
• Great article from: The Children’s Book
Review online on free e-book sources for
kids--
• http://www.thechildrensbookreview.com/w
eblog/2009/09/where-to-find-free-ebooks-
for-children-online.html

17. National Academies Press
• http://www.nap.edu/
• “…offer many {academic} titles in
electronic Adobe PDF format. Hundreds of
these books can be downloaded for free
by the chapter or the entire book, while
others are available for purchase.”

18. e-audio books
• LibriVox
• http://librivox.org/
• “LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public
domain. There are several options for listening. The first
step is to get the mp3 or ogg files
• Read by volunteers who contribute to the project

19. Laundry Lists
• Internet Public Library “Online Texts”
Pathfinder:
• http://bit.ly/5DolaO
• Free e-books Pathfinder (Joyce Valenza)
• http://springfieldebooks.wikispaces.com/

20. What have you found?
• What unique resources for e-books have
you found and utilized?

21. Wrap up
• Questions?
• Look for more classes on e-books coming
soon!

22. Join us for the LYRASIS
Lounge
Friday, June 24
7:00pm - 9:00pm
cocktails & light appetizers
The Napoleon House
500 Chartres Street
New Orleans, LA
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event.php?eid=20746952
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• Professional
Development
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