{"id":2299,"date":"2022-07-19T16:58:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T16:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2022-07-19T17:34:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T17:34:29","slug":"new-audiobooks-from-oreilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/2022\/07\/19\/new-audiobooks-from-oreilly\/","title":{"rendered":"New! Audiobooks from O&#8217;Reilly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As you may know, as a *general rule*, our Library does not collect audiobooks. There are a few reasons for this, including the fact that many in-demand audiobook collections (e.g., Audible.com) are available for individuals, but not for libraries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, one of our big ebook collections, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/go.oreilly.com\/university-of-alberta\" target=\"_blank\">O&#8217;Reilly Ebooks<\/a> (formerly called Safari Books) recently began adding audiobooks. As this is a subscription collection, we don&#8217;t control the contents, and the addition of these audiobooks was unexpected. But because the audiobooks have high-quality records suitable for our catalogue, and because O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s books are generally popular and topical, the CatMet and CSU teams decided they should be catalogued. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are currently about 1,700 audiobooks in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/go.oreilly.com\/university-of-alberta\" target=\"_blank\">O&#8217;Reilly<\/a>, although we may not have received catalogue records for all of them yet. You can browse them all by going into O&#8217;Reilly, clicking Explore from the left-side menu, then clicking All Topics, then using the drop-down format menu to limit to audiobooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, as a *general rule*, our Library does not collect audiobooks. There are a few reasons for this, including the fact that many in-demand audiobook collections (e.g., Audible.com) are available for individuals, but not for libraries. However, one of our big ebook collections, O&#8217;Reilly Ebooks (formerly called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}