It’s Coming!

Many of you are familiar with our eBook, audiobook, music, and video download website from OverDrive (HTTP://ebooks.lvccld.org).  Now we have a chance to take this popular service to our patrons with the Digital Bookmobile, a high-tech tractor-trailer that creates an immersive download experience built around our ‘Virtual Branch’ download website. To preview this exciting vehicle [...]

eBook Question for Circulation

A staff member this weekend had this question: I had a patron call today (Saturday) who had her library card# replaced.  She had an eBook placed on hold with the previous number.  The Circ staff told her all her holds would switch-over to the new number.  However, apparently this doesn’t apply to eMedia holds since the [...]

Your Guide to eReaders and eBooks for Library Staff

Print a PDF version of the guide Your Guide to eReaders and eBooks for Library Staff Follow these steps to help library patrons in-person or over the phone:Ask the patron what brand of eReader or tablet they have. The Kindle Fire can use the built-in browser to go directly to our eMedia Catalog, checkout and [...]

Wowbrary Updates

New Category for eBooks and eAudios: The #1 request we’ve recently received from patrons is to point them to new eBooks and eAudios. Although we already identify these within the relevant categories (for example, an eBook mystery shows up in Mysteries), we recently created a new category that separately lists all the new eBooks and [...]

Kindle Library Lending and OverDrive

Amazon and OverDrive announced the Kindle Library Lending program, which will enable Kindle customers to borrow and enjoy eBooks from our library, school, and college partners in the United States. The program is scheduled for launch later this year, and will significantly increase the value of the investment your library has made in OverDrive. Many of you will receive [...]

Kindle Books in OverDrive

Today Amazon and OverDrive announced the Kindle Library Lending program, which will enable Kindle customers to borrow and enjoy eBooks from our library, school, and college partners in the United States. The program is scheduled for launch later this year, and will significantly increase the value of the investments that libraries have made in OverDrive-powered [...]

CIL 2011: eBooks and Their Growing Value for Libraries

Notes about ebooks from Computers in Libraries 2011 1/5 of the US online population reads at least two books per month.  How are we going to capture that audience?  If you own a Kindle and download a book a week, you spend $500 a year on eBooks.  Where can you get them for free?  The [...]

Children’s books go digital

By Lindsey Levinsohn Mar 24, 2011 6:51 AM (The above titles have been recently added to our eMedia Catalog along with many others.) Children’s books are the cornerstone of reading.  From a very young age, children are introduced to books that allow them to marvel at faraway lands and colorful characters through illustrations and powerful words. To [...]

Growing Interest in eBooks Readers by Readers Over 55

Cindy Orr takes a look at how readers over 55 are jumping into to eBooks in her monthly blog post. A Pew Internet poll shows that different generations in the US use the Internet in different ways. While searching is number one, and health information is second for all ages, after that there is a [...]

OverDrive Help Updates Available

Our eMedia Catalog has the new Help updates installed.  If you have not checked it out I encourage you to do so now! It will really help our patrons in getting started with  eBooks and eAudio books.

If You give a Teen an eBook Reader..

From Cindy Orr, in her monthly blog post, shares thoughts on engaging teens with eReaders. In a post about a year ago, I suggested that reading devices may be one of the few new technologies that trickle down from an older generation to a younger one, though I wondered if different devices would appeal to [...]

Buying eBooks? Try LibraryBIN & Save 35%

This year, we want to help library customers get the ebook or eAudio titles they want for their new devices. We have been ‘stocking’ up our eMedia Catalog with new eBooks and eAudio books but they are flying off the virtual shelves! If you don’t want to wait for a title to be returned try [...]

Google eBooks

On Monday Google launched it’s eBook store. NPR bought a book and tried downloading to various devices. Nice article! http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010/12/06/131848462/test-driving-google-books-the-good-the-bad-and-the-competitive-spirit?ft=1&f=1032 There is also an article in USA Today about it – http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2010-12-07-googlebooks07_CV_N.htm  

New Downloadable Titles

The following new titles will be available shortly for downloading; are listed in the OverDrive catalog http://ebooks.lvccld.org and are available for holds. Library Catalog records will following in about one month. 1             This Full House                Creator 1: Virginia Euwer Wolff                2             Dandelion Fire                Creator 1: N. D. Wilson                3             Villain’s Lair                Creator 1: Wendelin [...]