Hi, this is Jeanne from the Cary Area Public Library. My book club, my
neighborhood book club met last night and while it's been challenging to meet
we made the effort to do so but the bigger challenge proved to be trying to
figure out what book and how to get it for this next month and I wanted to
share with you what we did. It's important to note that through the Cary
Area Public Library you can get ebooks and eaudiobooks on the library website
caryarealibrary.org, you can go to the Digital Branch. So, in that big black bar
in the center there is the Digital Branch, just click online eaudiobooks
and we'll bring up some of our digital resources. I wanted to point out in
particular the hoopla database because unlike Digital Library or Overdrive or
Axis360, hoopla's materials are available instantly, you don't have to
worry about putting things on hold, you don't worry about availability. If
they have it you can check it out right then and there. So, if you click on the
hoopla icon there, you can set up your account. You'll need email, do a
password, you need your library card number. If you don't know your library
card number I'll explain how to do that at the end of this. So, let's just assume
that you have set up your account. On your smart phone you can download the
hoopla app through the app store or through the Google Play on an Android
and the hoopla app if you look at my lower bar in my iPad is the hoopla icon.
Here you can see that I have checked out the Book Woman of Troublesome Creek.
That's the book that my book club has decided to read this next month. It was
important because it's available both in ebook and eaudiobook and since we have
readers that like both of those options, we played around with a couple different
titles to see what was available. Also some people will probably order
a physical book because they just like that also. But as you're browsing
around and trying to figure out what title your book club might want, on the
lower bar on the right hand side is the search function here
you can put in different titles of books and see if they're available in audio
book or ebook, here The Keeper of Lost Things is very popular for book clubs, is one of
those items. If you just want to browse, right next to the search function is
books and here you can scroll down with all sorts of possibilities. Here it's not
really limiting types of materials, as you see there's adult books and kids
books and fiction and nonfiction. If you are in the top blue bar you can see you
can narrow things down by audio books or ebooks I'm in the ebooks right now and
then over on the far right at the top is different genres. So, you can scroll all
sorts of possibilities to narrow down your browsing. So, what we did is
we kind of like narrowed it down and browsed a little bit and picked out a
title, things that we've heard, like oh here's the Allison Network, and I wanted
to see if it's available both in ebook and eaudiobook. So I went back to the
search function and I would just type that in and we'll bring up all the
possibilities.
It also helps if I spell it correctly. Oh see, Alice Network. I knew it's already
available in ebook but also audiobook so that would be an excellent choice. Just
have some patience and browse around and I'm sure that you and your book club can
find something that you would like. If you now if you don't know your library
card number or you don't have one and you're in the library district, let me
show you how to go about doing that. So, back on the library website you'll
see, for instance if you don't know your library card number or you've lost your
card or you can't find it or whatever, down at the very bottom of the website
under contact us is a button for email us and that will send us an email. You
fill out the information, basically you're requesting your library card number. We would
need to verify probably your phone number, your address, your birth
date before we send you your card number just to make sure we're sending
it to the right person. Now, if you haven't had a library card number for
some reason, right here on the right hand side is get a library card we are
issuing library card cards during this time so that you can get digital
resources. It's a temporary number and you would need to just provide us some
information. So, just read the directions here and get your library card and
you'll be all set. So, I hope this helps you and your book club find a book for
the next month or so. Hopefully after that, we'll be able to actually get you
some physical books also. Thank you.