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TBLC offers member libraries group discount for purchase of electronic resources. Group purchases leverage the group's buying power, resulting in better pricing for all participants.

TBLC-negotiated purchases will be distributed to members via this webpage, and by email. For additional information about these and other group purchase offers, contact Ellen Cannon.

• Priceminer Antique Appraiser Online
• TumbleBooks
• ProQuest Safari
• Solinet Offers
• Free trials

Priceminer Antique Appraiser - Online

Priceminer is the most up-to-date, innovative research tool for the art, antiques and collectibles market developed by GoAntiques.com. With more than 20 million records and 10 million pictures covering 5,200 categories and subcategories, it is used as both a price guide and an identification guide.

Records from eBay.com, GoAntiques.com and TIAS.com are aggregated to offer the most complete guide of its kind. eBay records date back to the first of this year, compared to the 15 days of records you can search on eBay's site. GoAntiques and TIAS records go back to 1998. PriceMiner currently adds about two million records every month.

PriceMiner also presents historical price data for same or similar items that you search. Search/sort criteria include price range, category type, sale date, data source and currency (converted to US dollars).

For access to the demo and pricing information, please contact For a trial and/or pricing information, please contact Ellen Cannon at (813) 622-8252 (ext. 231).

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There are three products offered by TumbleBooks. These products are available by remote and in-house access. Pricing is available upon request for Readables and TalkingBooks.

TumbleBook Library is an online collection of TumbleBooks, which are animated, talking picture books that teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books and adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you. The TumbleBook Library collection is accessed online from every computer in your school or library with Internet connection, or from home through a direct link on your school or library website. The TumbleBook Library is a collection of licensed titles from children's book publishers such as Scholastic, Chronicle Books, Candlewick Press, Harcourt, Walker and Company and others.

TumbleReadables is a collection of large print electronic books which allows you to read books online by simply clicking a button. Our TumblePad Reader, with its innovative font size slider, enables the viewer to raise the font size to up to 34 point, bringing the joy of reading to young and old.

TumbleTalkingBooks is a collection of streaming audiobooks for the home or in-house user. Libraries have a collection of interchangeable titles. Libraries that have not participated in the past are able to join this group purchase opportunity at a significant discount. If your library is interested in a trial or pricing information, please contact Ellen Cannon.

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ProQuest Information and Learning now offers Safari Tech Books Online. The Safari Tech Books Online information retrieval service is the ideal ready-reference resource, with simultaneous searching of hundreds of top IT titles for quick and reliable answers.

Subject Areas: Science, Technology and Medicine

'Best of Breed' Content from O'Reilly and The Pearson Technology Group
Safari Tech Books Online offers an exclusive collection of highly acclaimed reference content from the two premier IT publishers, OReilly & Associates, Inc., and The Pearson Technology Group, with imprints including Addison-Wesley Professional, Adobe Press, Cisco Press, New Riders, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall PTR, Que, and Sams. Together, OReilly & Associates, Inc., and The Pearson Technology Group's imprints deliver well over half the IT books published. Hundreds of books are loaded now growing to thousands as new books are published. In most cases, new titles are available in Safari Tech Books Online even before they appear in print.

Complete IT Subject Coverage
Safari Tech Books Online offers content in more than 20 categories, including Business Reference, Certification, Cisco, Creative Media, Database, Desktop Productivity, e-Business, Enterprise Computing, Java, Linux/Unix, Macintosh, .NET, Networking, Perl, Photoshop, Programming, Software Engineering, Web Administration, Web Authoring and Design, Web Development, Windows, Windows Administration, Windows Programming, and XML.

IT Answers in an Instant - Find Exactly What You Need
The powerful Safari Tech Books Online search engine lets users locate the IT information they need, quickly and precisely. Included are all occurrences of the search terms from all books in the library's subscription collection; thumbnails of book covers in the hit-list; relevancy-ranked results for books and terms within the books; hit-lists of book chapters containing the search terms; keywords in context in the hit-list; complete tables of contents and indexes for each book for easy page-to-page browsing; charts, graphs, and other graphics in full image, just as originally published; and cut-and-paste code segments to save time and eliminate typos.

Easy Integration in the Library
Safari Tech Books Online provides powerful tools for libraries to integrate and manage the collection including seamless IP authentication, prominent library branding in the interface, the ability to create links from the OPAC directly to books in the collection, and robust usage reporting.

TBLC Group Purchase Offer:
The Current File consists of the current years content, plus the last two full years worth of content. Any new content loaded into Safari is automatically added to the Safari Current File product (within the current and two previous years). 2 simultaneous users for each library. This is different than current subscriptions where libraries are limited to 100 title slots.

Contact Ellen Cannon to arrange for a trial and/or pricing for your library.

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Solinet Offers

All TBLC member libraries are eligible to participate in group purchase opportunities offered by Solinet. Visit the Solinet Electronic Databases webpage for more information.

Florida Electronic Library

The Florida Electronic Library provides reference and research assistance to all citizens of the state of Florida with a Florida public library card.

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Free trials

Plunkett Research Online is now available for trial for all TBLC member libraries. Click here to access the database.

Plunkett Research Online contains all of the information from our entire line of printed material, neatly organized with tools and search engines enhanced to perform online. Plunkett Research Online is a leading business and industry research database ideal for libraries of all sizes to provide market analysis, industry trends, company profiles and excellent job search tools for their students and faculty alike. Plunkett’s products save time and effort when you need the following: competitive intelligence, account plan or sales guide data, market research, vertical industry marketing data, product strategy data, trends analysis, emerging industry information, statistics, job search data, company profiles and executive lists. In comparison with other business research databases, Plunkett Research Online is generally more cost effective, easier to navigate and better organized.

If you are interested in an online demonstration, please contact Online Accounts Representative Jared Deter:

Voice: 713.932.0000
Direct: 713.357.9508
Fax: 713.932.7080
e-mail: jaredd@plunkettresearch.com

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