What trends impacted your
decision to subscribe
to ebrary?
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User expectations for 24/7 services and resources.
What issues or problems has ebrary addressed at your library?
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We are a comprehensive college offering degrees in the liberal arts and professional studies. The ebrary collection addresses the resource needs of our diverse curricular programs.
What do you and your patrons like best about ebrary’s technology?
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We like the ability to search across the entire collection and retrieve items by relevance, with linked LC subject headings. The multiple user access is also a big plus with all of our constituents.
Favorite feature(s)?
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Searching for a term within the e-book is one of our favorite features. I also very much appreciate ebrary's responsiveness and willingness to customize the InfoTools menu.
What do you and your patrons like best about ebrary’s content?
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Our faculty is discovering new titles of interest - some are using titles for supplemental reading in their courses. The collection includes titles that do not appear in other standard collection development tools. We also demonstrated ebrary to our Career Services staff after discovering the inclusion of titles relevant to their work with students.
How does ebrary compare to other digital resources at your library?
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We have digitized the full run of our college newspaper and offer access to an extensive array of full-text resources. What sets ebrary apart from other digital resources is the high-end functionality of the ebrary Reader software and InfoTools.
