Learn with your ears

“Ingram Digital, an Ingram Content company focused on solutions for digital content management, hosting, distribution and promotion, has announced it has acquired the iofy digital audiobook platform from Audiofy Corporation” (Source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog)

New downloadable audiobooks this month from NetLibrary

Did you know you can download audiobook titles directly to your desktop, or transfer them to portable devices for audio on the go? Audiobooks available through NetLibrary can be downloaded or played on any desktop, laptop or portable device supporting Windows Media Player (v9), Music Match (v8.2+), or Nullsoft Winamp 5.
Never tried this before? View Audio Book Demo (Source: CARL Book Beacon)

Get Out and Read!
Participate in the Library’s online summer reading program Get Out And Read! beginning Monday, June 16 through Friday, August 22, 2008. Get Out and Read! is for grades 6 to 12. This year we’re focusing on the environment with an ecological prize for teens who complete the club by reading 5 books this summer.

How to Join?
- Sign up for Summer Reading on the Library’s teen website, http://www.darienlibrary.org/teens. Use your library card to register any time during the program. Ask the Children’s Room if you need help signing up online.
- Each week, enter the books you’ve read (or listened to as audio books) onto the website to be eligible for weekly drawings of $25 gift cards to Apple, Game Stop, Amazon.com, and Darien stores.
- Club members who read 5 books by the end of Summer Reading on Friday, August 22 will receive a Tree in a Box kit for completing the club. (Source: Darien Library: Teens Blog)

Summer Reading begins June 16 in the Children’s Room and on our website! Summer reading welcomes pre-readers and readers alike. This year’s theme celebrates the environment. As we say - Books … RENEWable Resources!

Summer reading runs Monday, June 16 through Friday, August 22, 2008. Sign up for one of the clubs any time throughout the program.

Read-to-Me Club for pre-readers
Join in the Children’s Room and receive a reading record to keep track of books. Receive prizes in the Children’s Room
- Log 10 books and receive an organic toy
- Log 15 books and receive a board book

Summer Reading Club for independent readers in elementary school
Join at www.darienlibrary.org and log books online when books have been read or listened to as audio books. Participants will need a Library card. Receive prizes in the Children’s Room.
- Log 5 books and receive a tote bag
- Log 10 books and receive a Tree in a Box kit

Extra Prizes
Summer Reading Club members can earn additional prizes by participating in “Question of the Week” and “Book Wheel Bingo” in the Children’s Room. (Source: Darien Library: Children’s Blog)

Are you planning a family vacation this summer? Gonna’ have to be stuck in a car for hours? Take along a family-friendly audio book! Your library has them on cassette tape, CD, even a “Playaway.” What’s a Playaway, you ask? It’s a MP3 player (pictured above) on which the book is loaded; you can listen through earphones (or an external speaker, just like you use for iPod or other players). This is battery operated and comes with the batteries needed to listen to the book, even the long ones! No CDs or tapes to lose under the car seat or forget where you last put them! Patrons are listening to these while exercising and doing chores around the house; its small enough to fit in your pocket or hang around your neck.Check here for a list of books on tape @ your library, here for books on CD, and here for Playaway. Have a GREAT summer listening to books! (Source: CMRLS News)

"eMusic, the world’s largest retailer of independent music and the second-largest music service after iTunes, announces today that it has added nine new publishers—Simon & Schuster Audio, BBC Audiobooks UK, Reagent Press, Hay House, L.A. Theatre Works, Tantor Media, Phoenix Books, Inc., Listen and Live, Brainsync and Audio Evolution–to its rapidly expanding audio books roster." - News release on the continuing success of eMusic’s DRMless approach.
Other delicious details: We’re not talking minor players here. Philip Roth, shown above, is among the authors whose audio books eMusic is handling.
The news release goes on: "Following the success of Random House’s landmark DRM-free audio book program testing with eMusic, more publishers are moving towards distributing their content in the universally compatible MP3 format. eMusic now offers thousands of audio book titles, including new content from major publishers Penguin, Random House, and Hachette."
"We look forward to testing the DRM-free waters with eMusic," the release quotes Chris Lynch, Executive Vice President & Publisher for Simon & Schuster Audio, "as we believe their customers will be strong audiobook consumers."
Hello, Jeff Bezos? NonDRMed ePub, please, for the Kindle—if not immediately, then in the very near future. You could sell non-ePub books for now and promise customers future versions of their books in a more trustworthy format, ideally minus "protection." eMusic is just doing what you’re already up to with your DRMless MP3 store. You have the leverage to turn publishers around on the DRM issue, both with audio books and e-books. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home)

News release:
LibreDigital, a division of NewsStand, Inc., and OverDrive, the leading eBook and digital audiobook distributor, today announced that they will enable publishers to generate revenue by offering complementary services to deliver eBooks, audiobooks, music and video titles to consumers. As a result, publishers will be able to automatically package for resale digital content from the LibreDigital Internet Warehouse and link to OverDrive’s large worldwide distribution channel of more than 7,500 libraries, schools and retailers such as Los Angeles Public Library, Borders, WHSmith, efollett.com and others.
Technorati Tags: OverDrive,NewsStand,LibrieDigital (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home)

A recent article in Library Journal:AUDIO FIXATION. (cover story) By: Kaye, Alan L.. Library Journal, 5/15/2008, Vol. 133 Issue 9, p34-37, 4p, 2c;Full text available to Alaskans at http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=32071086&site=ehost-live.Notes that the national demand for audio books is growing, although formats are shifting:A 2007 sales survey provided by the Audio Publisher’s Association (APA) highlights the increasing market hunger for aural entertainment and information. In 2006, audiobook sales rose six percent to a record $923 million. Seventy-seven percent of sales was for CDs, a far cry from 45 percent in 2003. Fourteen percent was in downloads, up from nine percent in 2005. Seven percent of sales remains in cassettes, less than half of its 2005 figure, and one percent was in MP3-CDs. Adults account for 87 percent of direct sales. Sales to libraries are growing and are slightly ahead of retail sales, representing 32 percent of sales ($295 million) versus retail’s 30 percent. Unabridged audiobooks represent 71 percent of total sales, and fiction represents 69 percent. Sales data for 2007 is being gathered for the 2008 report, and APA plans to do sales surveys annually.The article reports that library acquisition of audiobooks are driven by patrons. And they seem to be using them. In 2006, the APA found that 50% of people who listened to an audiobook borrowed the audiobook from a library.What’s your experience? Does your library offer audiobooks? If so, what formats do you offer? How are patrons receiving them? (Source: Alaska Library Association)

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The term librarian is used often and incorrectly to refer to anyone who works in a library. Para-professional or clerical staff working in a library are more properly referred to as library clerks, library assistant, or some equivalent title. Professional Librarians (in the United States, Canada, Australia, and elsewhere) have achieved a Master of Science or of Arts degree requiring some 30 to 46 semester hours from an accredited school of library and/or information science within a college or university. As with most professional degrees, librarians may carry forward obligations to contribute to their profession through writing and publication, attendance and participation at professional conferences, mentoring, etc. To qualify for a Master’s degree program, the student must have successfully completed a Bachelor degree of some 130 or more semester hours.

The term librarian is used often and incorrectly to refer to anyone who works in a library. Para-professional or clerical staff working in a library are more properly referred to as library clerks, library assistant, or some equivalent title. Professional Librarians (in the United States, Canada, Australia, and elsewhere) have achieved a Master of Science or of Arts degree requiring some 30 to 46 semester hours from an accredited school of library and/or information science within a college or university. As with most professional degrees, librarians may carry forward obligations to contribute to their profession through writing and publication, attendance and participation at professional conferences, mentoring, etc. To qualify for a Master’s degree program, the student must have successfully completed a Bachelor degree of some 130 or more semester hours. …

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The term librarian is used often and incorrectly to refer to anyone who works in a library. Para-professional or clerical staff working in a library are more properly referred to as library clerks, library assistant, or some equivalent title. Professional Librarians (in the United States, Canada, Australia, and elsewhere) have achieved a Master of Science or of Arts degree requiring some 30 to 46 semester hours from an accredited school of library and/or information science within a college or university. As with most professional degrees, librarians may carry forward obligations to contribute to their profession through writing and publication, attendance and participation at professional conferences, mentoring, etc. To qualify for a Master’s degree program, the student must have successfully completed a Bachelor degree of some 130 or more semester hours.

The term librarian is used often and incorrectly to refer to anyone who works in a library. Para-professional or clerical staff working in a library are more properly referred to as library clerks, library assistant, or some equivalent title. Professional Librarians (in the United States, Canada, Australia, and elsewhere) have achieved a Master of Science or of Arts degree requiring some 30 to 46 semester hours from an accredited school of library and/or information science within a college or university. As with most professional degrees, librarians may carry forward obligations to contribute to their profession through writing and publication, attendance and participation at professional conferences, mentoring, etc. To qualify for a Master’s degree program, the student must have successfully completed a Bachelor degree of some 130 or more semester hours. …