Libraries

The combination of content and platform offers libraries and their users a new world of access and convenience.

CEL is delivered on ebrary, consistently voted most popular ebook platform available, which serves millions of books daily to millions of users worldwide in 5 languages. Once installed, the ebrary platform becomes a channel into which new titles and content may be added with no additional overhead. There are over 200,000 books available for subscription or purchase under a variety of plans.

Universities

The Canadian Electronic Library forms a part of the collection of every university library in Canada, in many cases alongside one of the many academic collections from ebrary.

"The Canadian Electronic Library gives us a range and depth of material that would be far out of our budget range in print."

John Teskey, Director of Libraries, University of New Brunswick

Colleges

CEL is also becoming a popular resource in colleges and post-secondary institutions.. For any learning institution, the CEL delivers essential academic resources at amazingly affordable prices. And a 20,000-title collection for Community and Career Colleges is also available from ebrary.

"We love the Canadian Electronic Library e-book service because:

• In a small library we don't have the staff to do a lot of materials selection ourselves so these collections give us a lot of pre-selected titles to round out our collections.

• Many of our students are at a distance so they now have access to resources we couldn't provide before.

• The MARC record download service is easy to use and it's easy to modify the records with our proxy server prefix.

Janet H. Beavers, Coordinator, Regional Library Services, Northern Lights College

"A subscription to the Canadian Electronic Library provides terrific value in these
days of budget constraint."

Jim Bruce, Librarian, Nicola Valley Institute of Technology

Special Libraries

A wide range of subject-specialized collections is available from ebrary for every discipline. Subject-specialist libraries also find that the ebrary platform is an excellent way to manage local PDF content for users.

"The Canadian Publishers Collection offers an interesting array of publishers and titles, and the price is affordable. This is an excellent Canadian product.“

Penny Logan, Manager of Library Services, Capital Health

Government Libraries

“Fugitive literature is a very important part of our collection, but its acquisition has become a real problem since publishing to the Internet became so widespread a few years ago. Being able to request the addition of fugitive literature titles that have been placed on order by our collection reviewers* really helps us streamline our procedures, and it avoids complex copyright issues.” 

Bette Desjarlais, Director of Support Services, Saskatchewan Legislative Library Support Services 

* Subscribers can lodge document requests at  http://canadianelectroniclibrary.ca/contactform.html

Public Libraries

Online books offer dramatic new possibilities for public libraries with widespread branch networks. CEL offers public libraries the opportunity
to massively enrich Canadiana collections at the price of only pennies/cardholder and with virtually no administrative overhead.
A public library collection is also available from ebrary.