L.A. County library system to add 10K new ebooks no comments
The County of Los Angeles Public Library has announced that it will be adding 10,000 ebooks to its digital collections. This will bring the number of ebooks in L.A. County Library’s collection to over 13,000. According to the library’s statement more than 16,000 ebooks were checked out by patrons in August, the month before Kindle support was added.
County Librarian Margaret Donnellan Todd says, "We are a library for the 21st century. Our mission is to support reading and the love of books. For a hundred years this Library has made the printed word accessible to all Los Angeles County residents. For the next hundred years and beyond, we will continue this important mission. Our investment in eBooks and digital technology ensures that we provide continued access to books regardless of format."
The library plans to have the additional titles available for patrons by the end of next month. Now that OverDrive and Amazon have added support for Kindle books, all of the major ereading platforms provide support for library ebooks. I imagine that we will now begin seeing similar statements from other libraries across the country and libraries that don’t currently offer ebooks will hopefully begin to do so.
