Recorded Books/One-Click Discontinued

HCPLC has decided to discontinue our Recorded Books / One-Click service. Due to budgetary reasons and the high price per unit of the Recorded Books platform we have decided to not renew our annual subscription and instead concentrate on the alternate platform of TBLC’s (Overdrive) Digital Book Catalog product which also offers downloadable books as well as music and videos.

In the next few months we will be adding heavily to the Overdrive platform with downloadables in many formats including, EPUB, WMA and MP3. Customers are able to access Overdrive either directly or through our Databases and Websites page located off our main webpage at:

http://www.hcplc.org/

If you have not done so already, check Overdrive for all the exciting titles in various formats. Easy to use and fun to browse, so Check It Out!

New titles added to Overdrive

93 new titles have been added to the Overdrive database in July. Many of them are "classics" which students may have on their summer reading lists. Remember to direct your customers to Overdrive when you are unable to find these titles in a paper copy. Below are listed just some of the titles which have been added and fall in the classics category:

Sense and sensibility /Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
Wuthering Heights /Bronte, Emily, 1818-1848.
A time of innocence /Burke, Warren, 1932-
Nicholas Nickleby /Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Oliver Twist /Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Hound of the Baskervilles /Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930.
Call of wild /London, Jack, 1876-1916.
Winnie-the-Pooh /Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956.
Anne of Green Gables /Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942.
Heidi chronicles /Wasserstein, Wendy.

MP3 Titles from Overdrive now Easy to Find

Want to find only iPod compatible titles from Overdrive. Now you can! Take a look at the ebooks and Audiobooks page off our Databases and Websites page and you will see this icon:

All the titles that are MP3 compatible have all been grouped together under one umbrella and when you click on this link you will be able to see all 96 titles that we currently have access to. More titles will be added in the future so look for them. Each title has a graphical list of compatible devices to make it easy to determine if you have the right device to download that titles. Happy Reading, or Listening as the case may be!