Content Library
Crafting the art (e)book
- March 5, 2014
Explore digital art book projects that worked well or not so well. You’ll leave with a better understanding of what art book publishers want and how to give it to them.
It’s time to think about upgrading your metadata to support Thema and ONIX 3.0.
While the dream of a single metadata feed for all product forms still eludes us, there are ways that you can streamline the process of creating and updating the records for different formats in BiblioShare.
Using a combination of improved data input and CataList’s excellent edit function, you can quickly and easily take the data you have and make your CataList pages informative, beautiful, and clean.
Marvin is an ebook reader built in close collaboration with the reading community and is based on the premise that incredibly powerful mobile technologies can be used to create richer reading experiences.
Building a better online bookstore with BNC BiblioShare
- March 5, 2014
BookNet Canada is developing a Shopify plugin that will pull rich bibliographic data from BiblioShare into Shopify, allowing small businesses access to the same data available to larger retailers.
Charles Nix presents an ordered guide to typography for ebooks — balancing time-tested principles with the opportunities unique to the next reading environment.
A narrative future in augmented reality
- March 5, 2014
This session outlines some of the experiments with future forms of the book currently underway in Fisher’s Augmented Reality Lab at York University.
Liza Daly makes a case for clean ebook markup.
This panel of librarians provides us with valuable insight into how libraries work, from budgets and collections to patron and e-lending statistics.
A focused look at activities, purchasing influences, and behaviours of today’s book consumer. Chuck
Susan Renouf and Ken Roberts talk about ebook lending in Canada.