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EBooks at NC State A Brief Overview of Where We Are and How We Got Here. Orion Pozo, Collection Manager. 12/07

According to Endeca What are the 3 Largest NCSU Libraries by Number of Items? Hint: D. H. Hill is the largest. So what are the other 2?

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1. EBooks at NC State A Brief Overview of Where We Are and How We Got Here. Orion Pozo, Collection Manager. 12/07

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4. Number of Items in NCSU Libraries Branches Satellite D. H. Hill Online

5. Number of NCSU Libraries EBooks by Vendor EEBO GPO NetLibrary* Others * Includes NCLive titles searchable in NetLibrary but not cataloged in OPAC

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Editor's Notes

I am going to give a brief outline of the current e-books situation at the NCSU Libraries I hope to ask more questions than I answer so we can try for answers during this meeting My topic is: Where are we and how did we get here. Raise your hand if you were here in 1999? Those who didn’t raise hands may never have seen these e-book readers [Hand out the Rocket e-books and Softbooks] The NCSU Libraries bought these to demonstrate the new technology of the time