{"id":1068,"date":"2019-01-29T08:35:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T15:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2019-01-29T08:35:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T15:35:48","slug":"prairie-indigenous-ebook-collection-launched-to-alberta-library-patrons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/2019\/01\/29\/prairie-indigenous-ebook-collection-launched-to-alberta-library-patrons\/","title":{"rendered":"Prairie Indigenous eBook Collection launched to Alberta library patrons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Public\nLibrary Services Branch (PLSB), in partnership with the Book Publishers\nAssociation of Alberta (BPAA), has launched the Prairie Indigenous eBook\nCollection containing over 200 titles from publishers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan\nand Alberta. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first\nof its kind in Canada, the Prairie Indigenous collection increases access to\nstories by Indigenous authors and writings about Indigenous culture. Discover\nnotable Canadian authors such as Eden Robinson, Dawn Dumont, Richard Van Camp,\nLee Maracle, Will Cardinal, Chelsea Vowel and Katherena Vermette as well as new\nliterary voices on this digital platform. The collection will continue to grow\nwith more titles added each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prairie\nIndigenous eBook Collection adds to 1,500 other titles in the Alberta eBooks\nCollection, which launched in 2017. These eBooks are available to all Alberta\npublic library patrons through their local library. Parkland patrons can access\nthe collection on the Read tab of our eLibrary page or directly at <a href=\"http:\/\/prl.cantookstation.com\/\">http:\/\/prl.cantookstation.com\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more\ninformation on how to use this eBook platform and for PRL marketing material,\nvisit BPAA\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/bookpublishers.ab.ca\/programs\/read-alberta-ebooks-project\/\">Read\nAlberta eBooks website<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Library Services Branch (PLSB), in partnership with the Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA), has launched the Prairie Indigenous eBook Collection containing over 200 titles from publishers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. The first of its kind in Canada, the Prairie Indigenous collection increases access to stories by Indigenous &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}