Time: February 7, 2007, 9:30 and 1:30 Place: FLICC/FEDLINK Training Room, LC Adams Bldg. Rm. 216 Registration: Please e-mail [log in to unmask] to register for either session. Please join Luis Cabrera, Government Sales Representative for an indepth review of the following: Globalbooksinprint.com Product Overview and Benefits: Globalbooksinprint.com contains bibliographic information for over 12 million titles from the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and many other countries. In addition, we provide stock information from domestic and international distributors and wholesalers as well as full publisher contact details for international titles. Rich, Unbiased Content �Authoritative Content * over 12 million titles including in-print, out-of-print, e-books, audio books, videos, and on-demand titles. �Timely Bibliographic Information * globalbooksinprint.com bibliographic content is updated daily with over 100,000 updates per week to ensure timely and accurate information for ordering. Rich Bibliographic Content * globalbooksinprint.com provides a wealth of bibliographic information as well as rich, value-added content that helps you in collections development, reference, and acquisitions. This value-added information includes: -Over 11,000 Author Biographies -Over 1,200,000 Annotations -Over 700,000 Cover Images -Over 400 Bestseller Lists & Awards from over 10 countries are tracked -Over 140,000 Tables of Contents -750,000 full-text reviews from 15 sources including Library Journal and Choice (available with a subscription to globalbooksinprint.com with Reviews) �Comprehensive Publisher Information * detailed information on over 185,000 publishers enables you to easily contact them. Key Benefits �Be the first to learn about new releases and forthcoming books. Introducing Bowker*s New BIP Alert Service. Enable staff and patrons to save their own customized searches and receive alerts when new items meeting their criteria are added to the database. �Speed workflow with staff and patron searching of globalbooksinprint.com from within your digital collection management system. We now have this availability with Sirsi, Endeavor, Ex Libris, GIS Information Systems, Auto-Graphics and GEAC - and are continually working to add new vendors. �Satisfy patron demand with targeted and quick searching from the only recognized, unbiased and authoritative industry database to provide title availability from domestic and international publishers. �Provide instant availability information with seamless links to your OPAC through Hooks to Holdings� and OCLC WorldCat, as well as real-time stock availability from 49 distributors. �Streamline operations by never having to re-key information with MARC21 download into ordering and cataloging automation systems. �Enable patrons to preview and search full text of more than 9,000 books via Bowker*s partnership with ebrary. Subscription models offering unlimited full-text viewing are also available. �Order directly from within globalbooksinprint.com through Brodart, Emery Pratt, Alibris (for rare and hard to find titles), AddAll (for comparison shopping), and BookSurge (for Print-on-Demand). Patron Friendly Service * patrons and librarians alike can use the various featured rooms (Children*s Room, Fiction Room and Forthcoming Book Room) to research and identify titles they are interested in. �Meet the demand of your Spanish-speaking audience*with the addition of over 200,000 new Spanish-language titles from Spain and Latin American countries. Bowker is the only US vendor receiving direct feeds from Spanish and Mexican publishers. �Full functionality on all records from all markets*items from all markets will be available for all methods of browsing, forthcoming, fiction and children*s rooms, bestsellers, awards, etc. �Revised Search Results and Full Display pages*all features (download, print, search my library*s catalog, etc) will be streamlined and organized in one area. Maintain selected titles from page to page*you will have the option of keeping your selected titles as you navigate between multiple search results pages. Contact Luis directly at [log in to unmask] or (866)815-3332. James W. Oliver FEDLINK Vendor Services Coordinator Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540-4935 V-(202)707-4960, F-(202)707-4955 [log in to unmask] http://www.loc.gov/flicc