MSCS are pleased to announce that Print-On-Demand & Ebook-On-Demand services are now available in the union catalog MaineCat. Approximately 1.3 million records have been loaded into MaineCat that look like this: http://mainecat.maine.edu/record=b11956901~S0. These records link to electronic copies of public domain titles made available by HathiTrust and Google Books. The records are part of Maine Shared Collection Strategy’s efforts to provide Electronic-on-demand and Print-on-demand services to the wider Maine community.

The purpose of these services is to provide a choice between print and electronic book delivery when both are possible, and to provide access to many titles previously unavailable in Maine library catalogs.

For more information about the services please see: http://maineinfonet.org/mscs/updates/e-book-on-demand-eod-print-on-demand-pod-service-guidelines/