The Taiwan Library Consortium, in conjunction with the government of Taiwan, has announced a three-year agreement with digital content services provider Ingram Digital, US. Under the deal, Ingram Digital will supply 250,000 users with access to 5,000 digital titles covering a wide spectrum of subject matter.
Through this agreement, the Taiwan Library Consortium will provide 88, or about 75 percent, of the country's libraries with access to e-books. E-book titles will be accessible to member libraries via Ingram Digital's e-content aggregation platform, MyiLibrary. Titles that will be available through this agreement were methodically chosen after a one-year survey evaluating usage patterns of print titles. Content will be available in both Chinese and English, continuing a longstanding tradition of providing citizens with access to education through the highest quality reference materials available.
The agreement marks the third international government-funded deal for Ingram Digital. Ingram Digital is also currently engaged in partnerships with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network and the Joint Information Systems Committee in the UK.
Ingram Digital's MyiLibrary platform is claimed to be the fastest-growing e-content aggregator, adding an average of over 5,000 titles each month to its current catalogue of more than 175,000 e-books. Thousands of libraries and hundreds of publishers worldwide choose MyiLibrary for its premium front-list content, flexible pricing models and global distribution networks.
