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Downloadable Media at the Library
The New York Times covers local public libraries which are offering downloadable e-books, audiobooks, and video to patrons in their article What’s New at the E-Library. Area libraries are contracting with services such as Overdrive, Recorded Books, and TumbleBooks to offer these new services. And over 100 of these libraries subscribe to a service called Next Reads which sends personalized book recommendations to patrons’ email inboxes.
“Technology is not something we’re afraid of, it’s something we’ve embraced and our patrons have embraced,” Ms. Lapsley said. “Technology is a steppingstone — we don’t know what else is coming down the pike, but we do know that everything we use will allow us to build on that technology and have our patrons build on that knowledge.”
