ebrary Interface Available in Arabic, President Kevin Sayar to Present Keynote Address at SLA-AGC

ebrary®, a leading provider of digital content products and technologies, today announced that its world-renowned interface is now available in Arabic as well as English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Swedish. The new language option helps libraries, publishers, and other organizations that acquire content through ebrary or use the company’s technology for their own proprietary documents better serve an increasingly multicultural user base, as well as provides flexibility for sharing and distributing non-English content online.
“Since the beginning of ebrary, we have strived to facilitate the discovery of important information—whether produced by libraries, our publishing partners, or individual end-users,” said Kevin Sayar, President of ebrary. “Our support of Arabic as a native language interface is just one of the ways we are committed to developing products to meet the needs of our customers in the Middle East and around the world. We look forward to expanding our language options in the future.”
ebrary customers may choose any of the five languages as the default, and end-users may change the display language at any time using a pull-down menu on the ebrary interface. Additional key features and benefits of the company’s technology include the following:
• Flexible options for acquiring content: subscription, perpetual access, patron-driven-acquisition, e-approvals.
• No Reader required with QuickView™
• Powerful research capabilities such as:
o InfoTools™, which networks every word with other online resources
o Highlighting and annotating
o Automatic citations
o Copying and printing
o Personal bookshelves
• COUNTER-compliant usage statistics
• Free MARC records
• Text-to-speech and other accessibility features
• Training available 24/7 with a live person
• Easy PDF submission—do it yourself, or send us your files and metadata
• APIs available for further customization
• Much more