Staff's blog

Here’s a heads up from Sara Gold and the Selection Committee.  If you have questions, please let them know!!

We anticipate this holiday season will trump last year’s in terms of demand on the WPLC collection, and we’ve heard from patrons — and from many of you — that they are expecting immediate access to popular materials.

The Selection Committee and WiLS want to make sure patrons have books to read on their shiny new devices from Santa.  So, here’s a quick update on what’s being done and how you can help:

OverDrive implemented a disclaimer on our site that warns the patron downloading a Kindle book that they are leaving the library’s digital site AND that the commercial site (aka Amazon) doesn’t have the same privacy policies as the library. The wording for this pop-up window was settled on by OverDrive and Amazon. In case the screenshot below doesn’t display for you, the text is:

South Central Library System is generously sharing their press release template for the million dollar buying pool: customize it for your own library and community.
Please download the template and check it out.

WPLCBuyingPool

If you have questions, or will share how you distribute the information, let me know!

Best regards,
Jane Richard
Wisconsin Public Library Consortium
jrichard@wils.wisc.edu