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Marty Moe
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650-475-8752
marty.moe@ebrary.com

Tish Wagner
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ebrary Announces Library Center, a Complimentary Online Resource for Librarians and MLS Students

September 8, 2003 – Palo Alto, CA – ebrary® (www.ebrary.com), a leading provider of information distribution and retrieval services, today announced that it has launched a complimentary website for librarians and MLS students. Available today at (http://librarycenter.ebrary.com), ebrary’s new Library Center provides important research materials, industry news and information relevant to librarianship and related fields.

“ebrary is dedicated to serving and providing solutions for library communities,” said Christopher Warnock, CEO of ebrary. “Our goal with the Library Center is to provide an open forum in which librarians, MLS students, and others interested in libraries and library science can access and share valuable information. We look forward to building this collaborative online resource, and encourage others to contribute materials as well as provide us with feedback and suggestions.”

The Library Center currently features a growing database of more than 30 full-text books spanning topics such as digital library development, general collection development, and the history of libraries and librarianship, as well as illustrated guides from the Library of Congress. It also features back issues of Advanced Technology Libraries, a leading industry newsletter that offers a concise monthly review of information technology relevant to libraries, including integrated library systems, the latest electronic products, and online services for public, academic, and special libraries.

Similar to ebrary’s database collections of full-text books, maps, reports and other documents, which the company licenses to libraries throughout the world, the Library Center collection features the following key features and benefits:

Simultaneous, multi-user access – ebrary titles are always available, never checked out.
Full-text search within and across documents.
Advanced research capabilities – ebrary InfoTools™ enable users to interact with every word in every document. By selecting words, users can instantly link to additional information within the collection, or on the Web such as definitions, translations, explanations and more.
Bookmarks, highlighting and annotations, which can be saved on a personal bookshelf.
Automatic citations.

Availability

ebrary’s complimentary Library Center is available today at
http://librarycenter.ebrary.com.

Librarians, publishers or others who are interested in contributing content should contact Marty Moe at marty.moe@ebrary.com or 650-475-8752.

About ebrary

ebrary is a leading provider of information distribution and retrieval services. The company has developed a powerful system that cost effectively and efficiently creates highly interactive, online databases of content, and offers numerous applications to multiple markets.

ebrary licenses its unique database technology to organizations that need to securely distribute their own content over the Internet to reduce costs, increase revenues and improve efficiency. Additionally, using its own technology, ebrary create databases of content from leading publishers, which it licenses to libraries and other institutions worldwide. ebrary currently offers over 30,000 full text books, sheet music titles, maps, reports and other authoritative documents from more than 150 leading academic, trade and professional publishers. The company also operates a consumer-facing site– ebrary Discover – designed for individuals that do not have access to its database collections through their library. Founded in 1999, ebrary is privately held and is funded by Random House Ventures LLC, Pearson plc and The McGraw-Hill Companies. ebrary is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA with offices in New York.

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