Friday, January 29, 2010

"Thing 22: Take a look at the titles available on Overdive, NetLibrary or Project Gutenburg and learn about downloadable audiobooks."

I explored NetLibrary and Project Gutenburg.

Project Gutenburg does not require you to set up an account. It has a broad scope and includes items in many languages including Chinese, Russian, Tagalog, and Sanskrit. I was surprised that NetLibrary does not include titles in Russian but it does allow you to change "your interface language" from English to Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai or Dutch. Project Gutenburg also has unexpected entries, for instance, in the"Data" category there items in the Human Genome Project arranged by chromosome number.

It is easy to set up a NetLibrary account and search the site. The basic search can be conducted in English, Chinese, Spanish, French or German. As noted above, you can choose your interface language from Chinese, English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Korean, Thai or Dutch. An advanced search feature allows you to limit "econtent language" by the following languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Haitian, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Spanish. You can access ebooks, ejournals, eaudibooks and databases. You can browse subject areas in these sections. For instance I explored the "Children's Classics" (25 titles) and "Children's Nonfiction" (14 titles) in the eaudiobook browse search of the 23 things interface. NetLibrary is also featured on MCPL (Montgomery County Public Libraries)'s website and linked to the catalog.

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