Lagniappe: Highlighting NC LIVE’s Home Grown eBooks

摘要

Have you read Kaye Gibbons’Ellen Foster? Philip Gerard’sHatteras Light? How aboutJill McCorkle’s Life After Life? Whatdo these three have in common (apartfrom their NC authors)? They’re allavailable in NC LIVE’s HomeGrowneBooks collection, along with morethan 4,500 other titles. Rob Ross, ex-ecutive director of NC LIVE, says thatthe HomeGrown eBooks collectionbegan in 2014 in order to collect andoffer North Carolina-publishedpopular and scholarly titles. He par-ticularly highlighted their benefitsacross all NC LIVE communities ofinterest: perpetual ownership withunlimited simultaneous uses with nodigital rights management means everybook is always available, even popularand current titles that could be adoptedby local book clubs or university class-es.