EBSCO’s NoveList Plus

The Board of Directors have received several suggestions of next projects for the Consortium, and the one we have decided to further investigate is offering consortium-level pricing for EBSCO’s NoveList Plus.
NoveList Plus is the newest version of EBSCO’s popular reader’s advisory database, NoveList; NoveList Plus adds reader’s advisory suggestions for over [...]

Calling all W9s!

Does your finance department need a W9 form from the Green Mountain Library Consortium in order to pay your Listen Up! Vermont fee? We have received our Federal Tax ID#, and can fill these forms out for you now. Please let me know if you need a copy, and I will fill one out and [...]

FAQ: Troubleshooting — burning to cd

I’ve heard a few times since Listen Up! began about folks having trouble fitting a part on a cd, even though all the audiobook parts are supposed to be small enough to burn to a CD-R. Here’s what OverDrive suggests:
Sometimes, Windows Media Player thinks it can fit multiple parts on one CD, causing this error. [...]

GMLC Annual Meeting Minutes

Minutes of the Green Mountain Library Consortium
Annual Meeting
13 May 2008
6:30 PM
Present: Board of Directors: Stephanie Chase (Stowe), Judah Hamer (Rutland Free) & Lucinda Walker (Norwich Public), and representatives of the following libraries: Richard Pritsky (Carpenter-Carse Library), Madeline Sherman (Proctor High School), Kris Berberian (Vernon Free Library), David Clark (Isley Public Library), Marti Fiske & Debbie [...]

New MARC record

A MARC record is now available for Jhumpa Lahiri’s collection of stories, “Unaccustomed Earth.” It can be found by scrolling through the MARC records “widget” in the left panel. The record is named grmlc-20080520a.mrc

Awww…

Several of us are taking turns manning the “vtaudiobooks[at]gmail.com” address. We’ve not had too many big problems, which is great, and people are so appreciative of the help.
I handed over the reins the other day to Chris Kirby, and on my last day, I got this email:
Hi, Thanks for getting back to me. I’m able [...]

A big thanks

As I mentioned over at the Listen Up! Vermont blog, I was honored at the Vermont Library Conference this past week with the Green Mountain Award, for organizing the Green Mountain Library Consortium and bringing downloadable audios to the libraries of Vermont. I was quite surprised, and am very honored — and, of course, didn’t [...]

A big thanks

As some of you know, I was honored at the Vermont Library Conference this past week with the Green Mountain Award, for organizing the Green Mountain Library Consortium and bringing downloadable audios to the libraries of Vermont. I was quite surprised, and am very honored — and, of course, didn’t do it all alone!
As with [...]

Reports trainings

Reports trainings have been set — join us on:
Tuesday, May 20 at 10amWednesday, May 21 at 10amWednesday, May 21 at 3pm
As in the past, these trainings will be conducted using ReadyTalk. I will send out an email reminding everyone of the ReadyTalk web site and the access codes for the trainings.
Reports trainings are a great [...]

GMLC Annual Meeting

Thanks to Jessamyn West of librarian.net for documenting our first Annual Meeting at the Vermont Pub & Brewery (via Flickr).
Thanks to everyone who attended; minutes will be posted shortly.