Two netLibrary Collections Give
Member Libraries More Resources

BCR members facing tighter budgets this year may want to explore participating in one or both of the available BCR netLibrary offerings. Combined, the BCR Ready Reference Collection and BCR Shared Collection Set II offer access to more than 4,887 e-books.

BCR is expanding the netLibrary Ready Reference Collection by 410 new titles. Ready Reference Collection group participants do not pay any additional fees to access these new titles. Free OCLC MARC records are also available to participating libraries.

The BCR Ready Reference Collection (formerly the BCR netLibrary Public Library Collection) is comprised of 3,040 reference titles plus 380 CliffsNotes titles. The CliffsNotes titles are unique since four simultaneous users are allowed access versus the usual netLibrary one-book, one-user model.

BCR Shared Collection Set II is the most recent offering assembled by BCR and netLibrary. Academic libraries will find a variety of useful titles in the 1,057 e-books that make up the set. Participants are required to sign a netLibrary license agreement prior to obtaining access to the set. A WorldCat collection set has been created, so free OCLC MARC records are also available to libraries that participate in this program.

Libraries should go to www.bcr.org/~ids/Reference/Netlibrary/NL-Menu.html for more detailed information about either collection.

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