Are you gearing up for Overdrive? That's the soon-to-be consortium between Northwest and Central Library Service Areas to provide downloadable audio books from the company Overdrive. This consortium will make downloadable audio books affordable for member libraries and offer much wider selection for patrons.
Most libraries, of course, have purchased audio books on tape or CDs for many years now. Anyone who drives anywhere can make great use of these. How convenient is that, reading and driving at the same time? I'm always in favor of doing two things at once!
Downloadable audios, though, take things to a whole new level. While patrons will need an MP3 player, they'll now be able to download a whole book at once and then "read" while exercising at the gym, driving, hiking, vacationing, cooking...well, you pick the spot! Patrons will have the advantage of downloading books from home because the OverDrive content is web-based.
The price tag for this would be unreachable for most small libraries in the state. Even the mid size libraries would have trouble with this, but with the WILBOR Consortium (Western/Central Iowa Libraries Building Online Resources) all libraries will be able to have the Consortium's digital library available to them. So...be sure you sign on, sign up, sign in....Get your boards psyched up so you'll be able to get in on the ground floor. There will be more details coming...
P.S. The piggy picture above is my submission for WILBOR's mascot. Some consortium, some pig!
Most libraries, of course, have purchased audio books on tape or CDs for many years now. Anyone who drives anywhere can make great use of these. How convenient is that, reading and driving at the same time? I'm always in favor of doing two things at once!
Downloadable audios, though, take things to a whole new level. While patrons will need an MP3 player, they'll now be able to download a whole book at once and then "read" while exercising at the gym, driving, hiking, vacationing, cooking...well, you pick the spot! Patrons will have the advantage of downloading books from home because the OverDrive content is web-based.
The price tag for this would be unreachable for most small libraries in the state. Even the mid size libraries would have trouble with this, but with the WILBOR Consortium (Western/Central Iowa Libraries Building Online Resources) all libraries will be able to have the Consortium's digital library available to them. So...be sure you sign on, sign up, sign in....Get your boards psyched up so you'll be able to get in on the ground floor. There will be more details coming...
P.S. The piggy picture above is my submission for WILBOR's mascot. Some consortium, some pig!
1 comment:
Nice Blog. Not so sure about the pig, looks kind of confused?
Ken at NEILSA
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