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Robbins Instructional Guides are now ONLINE!
Our instructional guides are now available online!!! Click on each individual thumbnail to enlarge. Links: Databases Kanopy Libby Help Hoopla Help Want to transfer your Overdrive books to your Kindle but don’t have the app? Try this. Or, just visit … Continue reading
Posted in Databases and Research, Technology
Tagged guides, handouts, hoopla, kanopy, kindle, libby, mango, mln mobile, new york times, online access, overdrive, rosetta stone
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Topical Tech Sessions: Libby
Join our reference librarians for our very first Topical Tech Session. We’ll be going over Overdrive’s free downloadable app, Libby. If you would like to learn more on how to access it, navigate it, and read (or listen to) e-content … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged instruction, libby, overdrive, programs, technology, topical tech sessions
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Digital magazines are here!
Starting today, you don’t need to come to the library for the current issues of your favorite magazines.* They’re available in the same app you use for ebooks! Our Overdrive collection, which you can access online or in the Libby … Continue reading
Top e-books and audiobooks in 2017
Recently, Bustle published a list of Audible’s most listened-to audiobooks of 2017, and I wondered if it matched up with library patrons’ use of audiobooks and e-books through Overdrive. Here are the top ten most-checked-out titles at the Arlington libraries … Continue reading
Overdrive Big Library Read: The Other Einstein
Do you read e-books? Do you like historical fiction? If you answered yes to both of those questions, you’re in luck! For the next two weeks (June 12-June 26), OverDrive is doing a “Big Library Read,” which means one e-book … Continue reading
Overdrive Big Library Read
Every so often, Overdrive has a “Big Library Read,” offering one e-book that everyone can read at once (no wait list!). The next book is a cookbook by Kate McDermott called Art of the Pie: a practical guide to homemade … Continue reading
Overdrive Big Library Read
If you like thrillers and suspense novels, and you like e-books (or digital audiobooks), you’re in luck, because Overdrive’s Big Library Read for June is Eyes On You: A novel of suspense by Kate White. What is a “Big Library … Continue reading
Big Library Read
As you all know, we are in the middle of Arlington Reads Together, with several My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece events still to come (including a Skype session with the author, Annabel Pitcher!). If you’ve already read My Sister … Continue reading
Do you borrow e-books from the library? The new version of Adobe Digital Editions is not secure
Updated 10/16/14 “Adobe is Spying on Users, Collecting Data on Their E-book Libraries.” This was the title of an article by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader on October 6, and though there have been updates since then, the privacy … Continue reading
When it’s A Long Way Home, use a Landline to Call the Midwife
Like winter, spring, and fall, summer is a great time for reading. Here at the library, we know you like to read all kinds of books in all kinds of ways, which is why we’ve just added a big batch … Continue reading
