
Downloadable Audiobooks
are digital
versions of popular fiction and non-fiction and Pimsleur language
tapes that you can download and listen to on your computer or portable
listening device. (Due to licensing issues these do not work with
the iPod.) These items are for downloading and use at home not on the computers in the library.
Tip Sheet for Downloadable
Audio Books
NetLibrary
Recorded Books
Popular fiction and non-fiction, Pimsleur foreign language tapes and
the Bible.
- Register for a NetLibrary
account in a library branch using this
link to be able to access NetLibrary materials remotely.
- Register for a NetLibrary
account from home using this
link to be able to access NetLibrary materials remotely.
- Use this
link for NetLibrary remote access .
- Format is WMA (Windows
Media Audio). Windows Media Player software is required and available
free to download. (Due to licensing issues between Apple and NetLibrary,
these do not work with the iPod.)
- Checkout period is 3
weeks.
- Ten titles at a time maximum;
materials cannot be returned early.
- Unlimited number of copies
of each title available to checkout.
- No fines.
- “Connect,
Click, & Listen!” Suggested NetLibrary Audio
Books List from George Guidall
OverDrive Audiobooks
Popular fiction and non-fiction.
- Format is WMA (Windows
Media Audio). (Due to licensing issues between Apple and OverDrive
these do not work with the iPod.)
- OverDrive Media Console
and Windows Media Player software is required to download any audiobooks.
Software is available for download on the site.
- Checkout period is 2 weeks for audiobooks, 2 weeks for eBooks and 1 week for video.
- A combination of 4 - OverDrive ebooks, OverDrive audiobooks and OverDrive downloadable video total can be checked out at a time from OverDrive. Only OverDrive eBooks can be returned early.
- Holds can be placed on
materials already checked out.
- No fines.
November 2006