Public libraries

“Penguin Group USA to No Longer Allow Library Lending of New Ebook Titles”

Nov 28th, 2011 | By

Taken directly from the Overdrive website: Penguin library eBook update November 21st, 2011 Brianne Carlon Last week Penguin sent notice to OverDrive that it is reviewing terms for library lending of their eBooks.   In the interim, OverDrive was instructed to suspend availability of new Penguin eBook titles from our library catalog and disable “Get for
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Do libraries need DVDs anymore?

Aug 22nd, 2011 | By

Picture it: the late 1990s and/or early 2000s:  Me:  ”I don’t borrow DVDs from Blockbuster, I just get them free from the library.” Friend: “What, really? The library has DVDs? FOR FREE??” When libraries started collecting videos, I was a kid and so I don’t know the impact that had on borrowing. But I do
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