Introducing our upcoming e-book platform . . . Amigos eShelf!

Our new e-book distribution platform, in development for the past year and nearing its rollout, now has a name – Amigos eShelf℠ - and a logo. You will start seeing both this name and logo in our communications with you, at our conference exhibit booths, and on our website.

To bring you up to date on where we are with this service:

• Our basic service, Version 1, should be complete in the next couple of months.
• Pilot libraries are working with us and should be on the system in late summer.
• We currently have almost 4,000 titles from publishers and are continually adding more.
• Our Publishers Working Group is helping us research sites with freely available e-books to determine whether to add them to this service.
• Our Catalogers Working Group is helping us create RDA-compliant MARC records from the metadata we receive from smaller publishers.
• We are working with and sharing information with other library e-book platforms inside and outside our region.

Throughout the coming year, eShelf℠ Project Manager Christine Peterson will be arranging 1.5-hour informal small group meetings around the Amigos region. These meetings will give you the chance to review the new platform, ask questions, and see if this service will be a good fit for your library.

We are currently looking for host sites for these meetings. If your library is willing to host a group session on site, contact Christine, peterson@amigos.org or 800-843-8482, ext. 2891.