Posted by Anne M on Wednesday, Oct 19, 2016
On Wednesday, November 9th, the Iowa City Public Library will upgrade its OverDrive website, which supports the library’s eBook and digital audiobook collections. The new site will make finding, browsing, and borrowing eBooks and eAudio faster and easier. You now have the option of exploring the new site before the official launch by clicking on the red bar at the bottom of the current OverDrive website.
Some features of the new site will include:
More options to sign in. As always, you can use your library card number. But, if you would prefer, you can also tie your library card to your Facebook account or create an OverDrive account and sign in using those credentials instead.
Easier to tell if a book is available or not. Before OverDrive had a visual cue: an book or headphone icon that was either filled in for available and grayed out if you had to place a hold. Now there will be banners above each book cover clearly stating "available," "wait list," or "coming soon."
Easy to change lending periods. You can select a default lending period for everything you check out, but if you want to deviate from your routine for an individual title, you can choose a lending period also at point of borrowing with one click.
For more information about other changes to the website, OverDrive has an overview with a video that you can find here.
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Anne Mangano has worked for the Iowa City Public Library since 2008, serving as the Collection Services Coordinator since 2013. In this position, she oversees ICPL's collection, including the selection, cataloging, processing, repair, and removal of materials, including the library's digital collections. Anne holds a Bachelor of...
This book tells the story of the Russian Revolution in Petrograd from the perspective of people who found themselves in absolutely the wrong place at absolutely the wrong time—foreigners. Embassy officials, journalists, tourists, businessmen, servants, and ex-pats from Great Britain, France, and the United States lend their memoirs, letters, diaries, and newspaper articles to tell their story as Tsarist Russia fell into what seems like complete chaos. It makes for a pretty intense read as events unfold and become more unpredictable to those living through it. However, it is also clear that although they were living through the events, they were not of the events. Many of the reporters, embassy officials, bankers, and socialites seem to not understand what they are experiencing and why. And they got to leave. -Anne M