K-12 Libraries
April 2013
What's New?
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Updates to the School Subscription Collections
EBSCO has recently updated both the eBook K-8 Collection and the eBook High School Collection. The
March update includes enhancements such as new frontlist materials, as well as additional titles from the
H. W. Wilson Core Collections.
Recently-Released Collections
New Featured Collection – Coming of Age
The new niche Popular Genre Audiobook Collection, Coming of Age, offers fiction titles of interest to high schools students. More than 30 titles are available from top audiobook publishers, including Blackstone Audio, Inc.; Tantor; AudioGO; Simon & Schuster Audio, and several others.
Featured eBook & Audiobook Titles
Stranded
The Kiss
In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb
The Greatest Moments in Sports
Jeff Probst
James Patterson
Marion Dane Bauer
Len Berman
Today I Am a Woman
The Purim Superhero
Etiquette & Espionage
Who Done It?: An Investigation of Murder Most Foul
Shulamit Reinharz and Barbara Vinick
Elisabeth Kushner
Gail Carriger
Jon Scieszka
Technical Developments
Short-Term Loans on EBSCOhost Collection Manager
EBSCO is pleased to announce that a Short-Term Loan option is now available through EBSCOhost Collection Manager (ECM)—instead of purchasing a title on a Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) list outright when activated, users can gain temporary access to the title via a short-term loan at a fraction of the list price.
This also means that libraries now have new customization options for PDA collections:
- Update your "traditional" PDA collection to trigger short-term loans
- Establish a loan limit to control how many loan copies any one book can generate
- Set up a PDA to automatically purchase a title after users have triggered a specified number of short-term loans ("Loan-to-Own")
To view tutorials or to sign up for free training, visit the EBSCO support site.
Enhancements to EBSCOhost Collection Manager
EBSCO has recently released a new version of ECM that features significant enhancements, including:
- Support for short-term loan/"Loan-to-Own" options (detailed above)
- A new interface design to simplify the eBook purchasing experience
- Support for P.O. numbers on ECM orders
If you would like to sign up for training on the new ECM, please visit http://training.ebsco.com.
If you have any additional questions on these enhancements, feel free to contact us at http://support.ebsco.com/contact/askus.php or visit our ECM support site at http://support.ebsco.com/ebooks/ecm.
Did You Know?
EBSCOhost Collection Manager provides a report of all owned titles. To generate one, click the "Reports" drop down on the ECM home page, and then click "Owned Titles."
