Some of you have noticed that you no longer need the password given out in training to access the Listen Up! Vermont web site. The site is in the “go live” process, and trust me when I say that we all owe a million thanks to Chris Kirby from Ilsley Public in Middlebury for all [...]
Entries from February 2008
27 February 2008
Promotional materials
Don’t worry — we are working on getting promotional materials for the Listen Up! project. Where we’re all volunteers, sometimes things take a bit longer, but custom-made bookmarks directly from OverDrive will be available in a few weeks (every member will get some for free — more on that closer to their arrival), and once [...]
26 February 2008
Don’t forget to vote!
Don’t forget to vote on your choice of logo! It’s pretty tight between the two with the headphones.
Vote here: http://vtaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2008/02/vote-on-logo-and-more-about-marc.html
Headphones logos here: http://vtaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2008/02/two-new-logo-submissions.html
Gorilla logo here:http://vtaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2008/01/heres-another-logo-submission.html
Let’s decide before the week is out!
25 February 2008
New additions
Hello all,
after our Selection Committee meeting today, here are the most recent additions to our collection — some mysteries, language learning, and more:
1916
Morgan Llywelyn, Fiacre Douglas
The Black Echo
Michael Connelly, Dick Hill
Blacklist
Sara Paretsky, Sandra Burr
The Book of Old Houses
Sarah Graves, Lindsay Ellison
Brother Odd
Dean Koontz
By Order of the President
W.E.B. Griffin, Dick Hill
The Cat Who Moved a Mountain
Lilian [...]
21 February 2008
Policies for Listen Up!
Please feel free to download and review the policies below:
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These policies cover the selection of materials (created from suggestions of the original group that created Listen Up!) for the project as well as the circulation policies (the terms of which were drawn from the most popular responses from [...]
20 February 2008
DCF and Green Mountain titles
We’re getting closer and closer to our March 1 start date. I hope everyone has been enjoying the trainings!
I wanted to let folks know that if you would like to direct your patrons, students, or staff to the titles in our downloadable collection that are either DCF or Green Mountain Book Award titles, you can [...]
19 February 2008
FAQ: questions from trainings
Hello all,
here are a few more questions from the trainings:
If the audio book is in my basket or waiting for someone to pick up the hold, is it available? No. Just as in your physical library, if someone is carrying the book around or it is on the hold shelf waiting for someone, someone else [...]
18 February 2008
FAQ: questions from training sessions
I sat in on most of this morning’s training, and here are some questions that came up. The first two were answered by Annie from OverDrive:
Where does the ISBN for a digital title come from?OverDrive uses the ISBN from the audio book on CD version of the title.
How can a library block the downloading [...]
13 February 2008
New for children & young adults
And, last but not least, with apologies on all these posts for the author/reader info getting cut off:
A Single Shard
Linda Sue Park, Graeme Malcolm
Airborn
Kenneth Oppel, David Kelly, Daniel Bostick, Bruce Coville, Daniel Bostick
An Abundance of Katherines
John Green, Jeff Woodman
Anansi the Spider
Gerald McDermott, Dr. John J. Akar
Are You There God? It’s Me, [...]
13 February 2008
New classics
In addition to our Always Available titles, comprised almost entirely of classics, here’s our latest order:
2001
Arthur C. Clarke, Dick Hill
A Boy’s Will
Robert Frost, Alex Wilson
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L’Engle, Madeleine L’Engle
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Hugh Fraser
Charlotte’s Web
E. B. White, E. B. White
Hamlet
William Shakespeare, John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank
Henry [...]
