Skip to main content

Thing 22: E audiobooks

I didn't know Gutenberg had audio titles! Very excellent to know. I'd much rather listen to Beowulf than read it (I think so anyway...) I'd like to see more plays there, though. The list is pretty skimpy right now. But since audiobooks aren't loaned through ILL, it's nice to discover another resource (because I'm pretty sure that all the Overdrive and NetLibrary books are already listed in Sirsi, right?) later amendment: obviously NetLibrary books AREN'T in Sirsi. When I do a general search for "ebook" I only bring up 649 items, and the first dozen are all from Overdrive, so I'm deducing that only Overdrive's books show up in Sirsi so far. So I did a search for the book I'm reading, Sons and Lovers, and found it in NetLibrary. Now I remember why I haven't ever tried doing the download: I have the lowest DSL, not cable, so to download this book so that I could put in on my MP3 player, it would take me HOURS! Then I'd have to transfer it to my player, and that might well take hours, too. If the book were through Overdrive, I could do a chapter at a time, but in NetLibrary, I'd have to do it all--too much!

I did the Ebooks training last year, and I recommend E-audiobooks all the time because books on CD are very popular at my branch! The fact that they don't have to be returned is a plus, too. I think patrons love being able to access this resource from home and transact it all without having to come in or worry about overdue fines. I'd be curious to hear from Teresa Vorce how popular these ebooks/audiobooks are.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Thing 5: uploading to Flikr

Wow, was this fun! Maybe I do know how to play if I allow myself the time to do it (somehow it seems okay if it's a class mandate!) Anyhow, I took a digital photo, had a co-worker show me how to upload it, then got on Flikr, created an account and uploaded a few. My mind is racing about how we can use this in-house. I already found some Flikr photos of book displays and made a link on this blog; now I have created my own account where I can post photos of the displays that I do so that other branches can see and share ideas/materials. Perhaps we could all share an account and subscribe to the feed so we could regularly see what displays are being created at other branches. One enterprising co-worker already suggested setting up rotating display boxes so that when one branch works hard on a display it can be easily shipped around and shared. This may be a good way to get that rolling...now if only we could get everyone to USE this cool technology...!
3 comments
Read more

Week 6:Thing 13: Del.icio.us

How wonderful to discover that my earlier wanderings I completed thing 13. Del.icio.us is fab.u.lous! I'm in the process of moving all my personal bookmarks over and adding more work-related ones to this site. I think of all the trainings I go to where I learn of very reputable websites to go to on certain subjects, but then if I don't use them right away, I forget. And when that one patron comes looking for good info on the web, I find myself rummaging through my brain (or my folders on my desk) to locate that perfect site I'd heard about. Del.icio.us is the perfect solution to that. And it seems to me that in training, new librarians should be shown this resource so that we can easily record and retrieve all that good web info we get. It's like creating our own personalized Librarians Internet Index search tool.
1 comment
Read more

7 1/2 Habits

Play! My children are great at this; my husband is great at this. I am not so great at it. Hand me the new camcorder and I'm dismayed by all the buttons. I have to ask my husband to post our digital photos on-line, download music, burn videos from our camcorder. I am too perfectionistic, too afraid to break it or alter it irrevocably and negatively. So of the 7 1/2 habits of life long learners, I am weakest in the 1/2. Ironically, I am confident of myself as a competent, effective learner--give me the manual, show me how in a class. But heavens alive! Don't make me play around to figure it out!
1 comment
Read more