Sunday, January 18, 2009

Listen up!

Thing 22

NetLibrary. What a helpful tutorial. I have created an account and have been searching through the database. The search interface is not great - if you limit to young adult fiction, for example, you cannot search within that set or quickly jump to another part of the alphabet. You have to page slowly through the list of 206 titles. And when you want to return to looking at books by genre, that option may or may not be on your screen. I am looking forward to attempting a download, because I want to be able to show patrons how to do this. It would be nice to feature titles each week, because many patrons will not have the patience for searching through for a title they might like. Maybe I can find a way to dump a list onto paper...
The links for free eAudioBooks are now safely tagged on my delicious page so I can refer patrons to those as well. I have two books in my favorites on NetLibrary to try out...Gathering by Anne Enright and How Perfect Is That by Sarah Bird.

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