Notes from the Troubleshooting trainings

Sorry for the delay in getting these up, but here are some of the notes from the Troubleshooting trainings we recently had:
A good first step if patrons are having problems is to make sure you have upgraded your Windows Media Player. Open your OverDrive Media Console, click on tools, and then click on Windows Media [...]

FAQ: Troubleshooting, part IV: DLL errors

Submitted by one of our member libraries –

Here’s the question:
After pulling 2 or 3 books down without incident, I’m now getting anerror when downloading from Overdrive Media Console. I select downloadon the listenupvermont.org download page, where I’ve checked out abook. OMC starts up, and the Get Media window [...]

Content Reserve access

I’ve gone through my list of participating libraries and given everyone an account for their library to access the reports section of OverDrive’s Content Reserve. Remember, we will be having trainings in May on how to best use these reports — be sure to take a look at the dates and see which one you [...]

New titles for April

Look for these new additions to the collection:

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz, Jonathan Davis

The Bush Tragedy
Jacob Weisberg, Robertson Dean

The Girl with No Shadow
Joanne Harris, Susanna Burney

Honor Thyself
Danielle Steel, Kyf Brewer

Ladies of Liberty
Cokie Roberts

Lady Killer
Lisa Scottoline, Kate Burton

A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle

Nixon and Kissinger
Robert Dallek, Eric Conger

Predictably Irrational
Dan Ariely, Simon Jones

Protect and [...]

GMLC Annual Meeting

You should have received an email letting you know about the first annual Green Mountain Library Consortium Annual Meeting on May 13, 2008 at 6:30pm at the Vermont Pub & Brewery, during the Vermont Library Conference. This will be a great way to meet folks participating in the Listen Up! Vermont project.
Find out more at [...]

Green Mountain Consortium Annual Meeting

The Green Mountain Library Consortium Board of Directors would like to invite all members of the Consortium (either participating in the Listen Up! Vermont project or the Vermont Koha group) to the first Annual Meeting for the Consortium. The meeting will be held at the Vermont Pub & Brewery on College Street at 6:30pm on [...]

new marc records

We have new marc records available for download. To find them on the blog, go to the side panel and click on the “marc records” tag under “labels”. This will take you to the Box widget where I’m uploading marc records. As soon as marc records arrive, I upload them here. If you haven’t loaded [...]

Minutes of the GMLC Board of Directors Meeting

Minutes of the Green Mountain Library Consortium
Board of Directors
10 April 2008
1 PM

Present: Stephanie Chase, Judah Hamer & Lucinda Walker

Review of documents pertaining to 501(c) 3 status:
The documents drafted by GMLC attorney, Brian Murphy were reviewed. We will look into purchasing Board & Directors insurance. It was decided to keep all of Mr. Murphy’s suggestions. It [...]

Two new trainings scheduled

Take a look at the sidebar and schedule yourself for one or both of our new trainings — Best Practices, which covers ideas for promoting and advertising the service, and the one everyone’s been hankerin’ for, Reports. As with our other trainings, you don’t need to sign up, but checking off which session you’d [...]

Additional copies

Wow — we just can’t keep up with the holds for Grisham’s The Appeal! With other titles, we’ve had better luck, and have purchased additional copies of the following titles to help with holds:

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp, Camille Kingsolver

The Audacity of Hope
Barack Obama, Barack Obama

Before You Know Kindness
Chris Bohjalian, Susan Denaker

The Black [...]