Welcome to the November issue of our e-books for FE newsletter, hosted on our new blogging platform. This month’s edition brings you the winner of October’s National Book Token, as well as the usual top users and titles.

October winner

We are excited to announce the winner of October’s £30 National Book Token. Congratulations to Oldham Sixth Form College, who tweeted us their impressive display for banned books week. Thank you to everyone who entered this month’s prize draw, we loved seeing your creative displays and hope you will enter November’s prize draw.

Win a voucher this ‘Knowvember’

Throughout November, we will be sharing tips and ideas on all aspects of e-books, from engaging teaching practitioners to downloading usage statistics. We would love you to join us and help to spread your knowledge across our FE community. To be in with chance of winning November’s £30 National Book Token, all you need to do is Tweet us with your best tip with the hashtag #Knowvember. You have until 30th November to share your e-books knowledge with us, and one winner will be selected at random.

Vote for our idea on ProQuest’s ideas platform

The Bookshelf function of ProQuest’s Ebook Central is a great feature that allows users to create virtual bookshelves that can be shared with learners and staff. We want to create bookshelves for different subject and qualification areas, to make it easier for you to share titles with your learners and staff. However, the function isn’t currently set up to be shared across organisations. If you would like to see this functionality added, please spare a minute to vote for our idea on the ProQuest Ideas Platform. Vote for our idea here.

ProQuest site code

We have received many queries recently from members who need to know their site code to download MARC records. To find your site code:

• Login to Ebook Central
• Go to your URL
• Locate the text between lib and home:
  • https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/********/home.action
• Your site code is represented by the asterisks
  • Ours is Jisc:
    •  https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/jisc/home.action

Top 20 users

Well done to all organisations who reached a spot in the top 20. If you have tips to share on how you promote e-books for FE to teaching practitioners and learners, we would love to feature you and showcase your work. Get in touch if you would like to be featured at  content.feandskills@jisc.ac.uk

#	Organisation	User sessions
1	Varndean College	2571
2	The Cheadle and Marple College Network	2269
3	South Eastern Regional College	2203
4	South & City College Birmingham	1803
5	Uxbridge College	1746
6	College of Richard Collyer	1662
7	Northern Regional College	1613
8	Capital City College Group – WKCIC Group	1479
9	York College	1422
10	Walsall College	1403
11	Neath Port Talbot College	1391
12	Grwp Llandrillo Menai	1364
13	North West Regional College	1323
14	West Kent and Ashford College	1304
15	Milton Keynes College	1265
16	Farnborough Sixth Form College	1260
17	Coleg Cambria	1216
18	Middlesbrough College	1160
19	Leyton Sixth Form College	1143
20	South Thames College	1134

Mergers: If your organisation has recently merged with another, ProQuest may not have the most current merger information and your merger may not be reflected in the usage data. Please check with ProQuest and request that they update your account to reflect the merger. Their e-book support contact address is: ebooksupport@proquest.com

Top 20 titles

We would love to hear your feedback on this month’s newsletter. Leave us a comment below.

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