Here are the titles we added for the end of March/beginning of April — including all the available titles off the 2008/2009 DCF and Green Mountain Book Award lists. The 2008/2009 DCF and GMBA titles were generously purchased for Listen Up! by the Vermont Department of Libraries and our State Librarian, Sybil McShane:
A Crooked Kind [...]
I’ve been remiss in posting the names of our two winners in the mp3 player giveway:
West Hartford Public LibraryPeacham Library
Congrats!
I’ve also taken advantage of my post-surgery “vacation” to make a Google Map of Listen Up! Vermont participants:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=44.676466,-72.46582&spn=3.679307,10.195313&z=7&msid=101939424847310836279.0004482c9e553816b442f
Handy to see the distribution of participants, where in the state holes in coverage exist (have a good friend [...]
Worried that your spam filter might be weeding out your email that an audiobook you have reserved is ready? Set your email to accept messages from noreply@listenupvermont.org and never miss a message again!
I thought everyone might like to read this article from Library Journal on OverDrive and iPods:
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6542329.html
Also, a press release about our service went out over MarketWire — perhaps some of you may be contacted about it by your local papers:
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=835391
And a note from OverDrive, which will be good to know, in case you get questions [...]
60,000 custom bookmarks from OverDrive have landed on my doorstep, and every consortium member will receive some for free, divided up this way:
$100 subscription level = 250 bookmarks ($4.60)
$250 subscription level = 500 bookmarks ($4.60)
$500 subscription level = 1,000 bookmarks ($6.85)
$1000 subscription level = 2,250 bookmarks ($8.95)
Now, I won’t be counting these out exactly, but [...]
We have just received marc records for audio books in our collection. As they become available, we will post them here on the blog.
Here’s a question we’ve come across, about an error file:
Unable to transfer selected title because (Insert 3) returned OxCOOD2779.
If you get this message, which deals with a DRM issue, head over the NH Downloadable Audiobook blog for the answer:
http://nhaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2008/01/troubleshooting-error-message.html
OverDrive has generously donated us two Creative MuVo V100 mp3 players (about $55 on Amazon) to raffle off to our consortium members. Unless we hear back that you do not want your library to be included in the raffle (maybe you’ve bought yours already, you don’t want to circulate them, etc), we will be including [...]
OverDrive has scheduled our next round of trainings, Troubleshooting, for April. We’ll be using ReadyTalk again, as we did for our first round. I picked the two most popular dates, and then, by request, moved two of the trainings to the next week, with the best times I could get. You do not need [...]
Here’s fantastic news about OverDrive’s compatibility with iPods — it is coming this summer! Here’s a blurb, courtesy Brian Herzog (“the Swiss Army Librarian“):
“OverDrive just announced (at PLA, anyway) that they, too, are finally moving in the right direction. In June they’ll start offering mp3 files – which, best of all, will be iPod-compatible. And [...]
