New quick search option for your mobile users

If your patrons use overdrive app on their i-phone, i-pad or android phones, you may want to alert them of this cool new feature that just came out. It allows your patrons to search for only available titles on the Listen Up mobile site! Remember, if you have any questions regarding the use of these mobile apps, please check out the following post from January 19th:

http://vtaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2011/01/mobile-device-training.html

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STATEMENT REGARDING HARPER COLLINS

The Green Mountain Mountain Library Consortium (GMLC) works to provide Vermont libraries with access to downloadable audiobooks and downloadable eBooks in an efficient and cost effective way.  Our current vendor, OverDrive, has been terrific to work with and has helped us to establish a valuable service of providing these formats to Vermonters.

A few weeks ago Overdrive informed their customers that Harper Collins, a publisher of many popular titles, has imposed a 26 checkout limit on purchased eBooks. Under this new policy, our access to these titles will “expire” after they have been checked out 26 times.  In order to continue to provide our patrons with access, the titles that have expired would need to be re-purchased, which Harper Collins says will be at a lower price rate. 

GMLC is disappointed in this change in pricing structure.  While we understand Harper Collins’ desire to ensure their digital files are not owned “in perpetuity,” we feel that there are other models that could have been implemented that would serve the needs of libraries, their patrons, and Harper Collins.  One such example would have been a model similar to the “always available” leased model used by Tantor and Blackstone for their audio titles.

  

GMLC, along with libraries across the state and country, are looking to Harper Collins to reconsider this recent change to its ebook purchasing structure.  Our decision to continue to purchase materials from Harper Collins will hinge on the next steps taken by this publisher.

The Green Mountain Library Consortium Board

Mary Danko, President

Direct comments can be made to Harper Collins at  library.ebook@HarperCollins.com

Spring Forward!

Recently on the New Hampshire downloable books listserv, the following message arrived:

"Expired titles are remaining (inactive) attached to
people's accounts not allowing them to retrieve their new holds (if
they've maxed out their three checkouts). Our patrons are complaining
that they are losing their holds".

The error message is as follows:

Error number:   0xC0001F42   
Error message:Unable to open a recordset in the database

 This may due to the fact that we recently moved our clocks forward ahead an hour. Please make sure to ask your patrons that the clocks on their device and their computers are both synced to the same time. Some other questions to ask:

     Are you behind a restrictive firewall?
    Do you have fairly high security settings on your computer?
    Can you add our server to the list of sites your browser or
operating system trusts?
    Can you right-click on URLLink.acsm, choose "Properties," and
   unblock the file?

If this happens to one of your patrons, and none of the above questions seem to help, please send me the following information:
patron number, library name, patron email address,
desired title and FORMAT (MP3, WMA, or EPUB)


I would like to thank Bobbi Slossar of the NH state library for this information. 

New Items to the Collection!

As your new coordinator I am still learning a TON and so I apologize for not getting this list out to you in the past. With the Harper Collins 26 checkout per e-book rule going into effect today, we here at GMLC have prepared for it the best we can by buying as much Harper Collins content as we possibly could before the new model went live. We will be having a meeting about this issue on Friday March 11 at 11am. Please email me: vtaudiobooks<@> gmail.com  if you would like to attend this meeting!

Without any further ado- here are a list of the new Harper Collins items we have added to our collection. I would like to thank the hard work of Kip, Joan, Karen  and Stephanie for purchasing these titles on such short notice! I will be posting other items we have purchased in the past couple months soon.

Title	Author(s)
The Alchemist	Paulo Coelho
Anne Frank	Francine Prose
The Art of Racing in the Rain	Garth Stein
Blood, Bones & Butter	Gabrielle Hamilton
Blood, Bones & Butter	Gabrielle Hamilton, Gabrielle Hamilton
The Boleyn Wife	Brandy Purdy
Cream Puff Murder	Joanne Fluke
The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder	Rebecca Wells
Death of a Chimney Sweep	M. C. Beaton
The Doomsday Key	James Rollins
A Duke of Her Own	Eloisa James
A Duke of Her Own	Lorraine Heath
Fatally Flaky	Diane Mott Davidson
The Fellowship of the Ring	J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
The Happiness Project	Gretchen Rubin
The Lacuna	Barbara Kingsolver
Lit	Mary Karr
The Lord of the Rings	J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
Marley & Me	John Grogan
Mastered By Love	Stephanie Laurens
Matched	Ally Condie, Kate Simses
More Diners, Drive-ins and Dives	Guy Fieri
A People's History of the United States	Howard Zinn
The Poisonwood Bible	Barbara Kingsolver
Revolt!	Dick Morris
So Much for That	Lionel Shriver
This Book Is Overdue!	Marilyn Johnson
Unseen Academicals	Terry Pratchett
Wicked Lovely with Bonus Material	Melissa Marr
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West	Gregory Maguire
A Widow's Story	Joyce Carol Oates

Title		Author(s)
101 Places Not to See Before You Die		Catherine Price
32 Candles		Ernessa T. Carter
40 Ways to Raise a Nonracist Child		Barbara Mathias, Mary Ann French
After the Ice		Alun Anderson
Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce		Kent Nerburn
Eye of the Needle		Ken Follett
Faint Echoes, Distant Stars		Ben Bova
John Lennon		Philip Norman
The Mapping of Love and Death		Jacqueline Winspear
Morning Comes Softly		Debbie Macomber
Sword Song		Bernard Cornwell
Take Me Home		Brian Leung
Voluntary Simplicity		Duane Elgin
Walking on Air		R.S. Jones
You've GOT to Read This Book!		Jack Canfield, Gay Hendricks

Title		Author(s)
Angel		James Patterson
The Charmed Return		Frewin Jones
Cloaked		Alex Flinn
Death Cloud		Andrew Lane
The Fourth Stall		Chris Rylander
The Iron Queen		Julie Kagawa
The Lying Game		Sara Shepard,
Mission Unstoppable		Dan Gutman
Suicide Notes		Michael Thomas Ford
Wonderland		Joanna Nadin, Sarah Coomes
You		Charles Benoit, David Baker

Title		Author(s)
1492		Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
1812		Walter R. Borneman
500 Great Facts to Know About America		Bill Adler
Abigail and John		Edith Gelles
Abraham		Bruce Feiler
Africa United		Steve Bloomfield
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland		Lewis Carroll
American Jezebel		Eve LaPlante
Anne of Avonlea		L. M. Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables		L. M. Montgomery
Anne of the Island		L. M. Montgomery
The Autobiography of Mark Twain		Charles Neider
Barbarians at the Gate		Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
Beautiful Assassin		Michael C. White
Being Wrong		Kathryn Schulz
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever		Barbara Robinson
The Birth House		Ami McKay
The Boys of Summer		Roger Kahn
The Clockwork Universe		Edward Dolnick
Cooking for Friends		Gordon Ramsay
Deep Dish		Mary Kay Andrews
Dreamgirls		Denene Millner
The Fixer Upper		Mary Kay Andrews
Frost/Nixon		David Frost
Kate		Claudia Joseph
The Kennedy Men		Laurence Leamer
Little Bitty Lies		Mary Kay Andrews
Making Toast		Roger Rosenblatt
The Pioneer Woman		Ree Drummond
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm		Kate Douglas Wiggin
Sense and Sensibility		Jane Austen
She-Wolves		Helen Castor
Spark		Julie Burstein, Kurt Andersen
To a Mountain in Tibet		Colin Thubron
The Velveteen Rabbit		Margery Williams
Walking the Bible		Bruce Feiler
Water		Steven Solomon
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance		Robert M. Pirsig

Info on today's report's training

If you missed today's report's training, or would like to review the information on it, be sure to take a look at the information below.

For audio: http://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=8gevri (bear in mind the audio is only good for 30 days)

Slideshow: http://www.overdrive.com/trainingcenter and go down to Real Time Reports

That link also includes some other helpful information, such as:

• Learn about other OverDrive courses.
• View our Mobile Update recording. 
• Download the How-To Guide for eBooks.
• Download our Patron Training Template.
• Link to our Marketing Kit

Let me know if you have any questions by emailing me at vtaudiobooksgmail.com

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Overdrive eBooks & Harper Collins

Many of you heard about Overdrive’s memo and their statement that there is one publisher who is planning on limiting eBook checkouts.  That publisher has turned out to be Harper Collins and naturally many libraries are questioning how this will affect their eBook purchasing and lending.  Overdrive has put out a reaction on their blog which you can read here:

http://overdriveblogs.com/library/2011/03/01/a-message-from-overdrive-on-harpercollins-new-ebook-licensing-terms/

(You are able to post comments to this blog post if you wish)

As eBooks are a new format for GMLC and we are still working out how to best build this collection I invite all the consortium members to please let the board know your feelings on this topic.  Please feel free to comment on this post or send an email to vtaudiobooks gmail.com

Training Reminder

Just a reminder that overdrive will be hosting a reports training on Friday March 4 at 10AM. Please plan on being there!

To login into this training go to: www.readytalk.com and click on the "Join Meeting" box.

Enter the access code: 5736005

To receive audio of this conference, call the number: 1.866.740.1260

Let me know if you have any questions by emailing me at: vtaudiobooks@gmail.com

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