Category Archives: Recorded Books
Recorded Books Additions
Here’s what was added to the Recorded Books One Click Downloadable Audio collection this month: TITLE AUTHOR 1 Unbearable Lightness of Scones (44 Scotland Street Bk #5) Smith, Alexander McCall 2 Last Suppers (Catering Mystery Bk #4) Davidson, Diane Mott … Continue reading
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Additional mp3 titles for Recorded Books
From the Recorded Books folks: “NetLibrary and Recorded Books recently replaced over 165 eAudiobook titles with iPod-compatible versions. With this exciting update, the file format of the titles was changed from the WMA (DRM-protected) format to the MP3 (DRM-free) file … Continue reading
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Recorded Books Stats
Just a reminder: every libray should have received an email from OCLC detailing how to access your library’s statistics. This email should have included your login and password. Joe suggests: Go to http://www.netlibrary.com/resourcecenter Click on the reports section Search for … Continue reading
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Audio Book Comparison Table
My prayers were answered by Kim Peine of the Dorothy Alling Memorial Library in Williston: a chart comparing the OverDrive and Recorded Books audio programs! This will be handy for your staff and patrons; why not link to it from … Continue reading
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FAQ on audio programs
I have created two new FAQ pages to help librarians with our two downloadable audio book services: Listen Up! Vermont FAQRecorded Books One Click FAQ There are differences between the programs — the two most important being: all titles on … Continue reading
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Neil Gaiman on Audio Books
Did you hear the piece on Morning Edition this morning on NPR, where Neil Gaiman spoke about the audio book with David Sedaris and several audio book narrators, producers, publishers, etc?Most interesting — plus, he has that gorgeous voice: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120769925 … Continue reading
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A reminder about Recorded Books
The busy travel season is the perfect time to promote your downloadable audio collections — but in that promotion, please do not forget to directly link your patrons from your website or on your promotional materials to the Recorded Books … Continue reading
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One Click Additions
If you’d like to see the newest additions to the One Click downloadable audio book program through Recorded Books, take a look at the newest list of titles:Adult Collection Additions, October through December (PDF)Children’s & YA Collection Additions, October through … Continue reading
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Four Things You Can Do… to get started with One Click Audio
Thanks to Joe Levy for coming around the state once again in October to re-acquaint us with the Recorded Books One Click Audio program. If you’re currently participating, here are his suggestions for getting going: Get an icon on your … Continue reading
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MARC records updated
I spent a little time this morning compiling the many MARC record files for Listen Up! Vermont into chunks by year, broken up by season. Hopefully, this will help ease the process of getting all those MARC records into your … Continue reading
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