The Wait is Over for eBooks!
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NPL’s eBooks collection launched this summer, allowing you to enjoy the titles and authors you have always loved. eBooks are hosted by the online digital distributor OverDrive™, and can be downloaded 24/7 from the Library’s catalog. Go to norfolk-va.lib.overdrive.com.
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ever experience overdue fees again! eBooks automatically expire from your account when the term limit is up. The Friends of the Norfolk Public Library (FNPL) made a donation to help bring eBooks to NPL. What began as a small collection has rapidly grown to feature popular titles in fiction and nonfiction for adults and children. If you don’t find what you want, make a recommendation while you are on the site. Up to three titles may be borrowed for a term limit of 7 or 14 days, or you can return them at any time. You can also maintain a personal wish list and place up to 15 holds for unavailable titles, and will be notified when titles become available. The Library is offering eBooks Training classes. View the fall 2013 schedule at www.npl.lib.va.us/technology and sign up by contacting your branch of choice.
Bringing Citizens Up to Speed NPL’s Technology Tune-up Event
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On Saturday, September 14, the Norfolk Public Library hosted its first-ever Technology Tune-up Event. More than 100 guests flowed into the Mary D. Pretlow Anchor Branch Library to see the latest technology at NPL.
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hat they discovered is that NPL now has Zinio™, a world-wide digital database for popular magazine downloads; databases for smartphones; an expansive eBooks collection through the online platform, OverDrive™; and a newly launched and interactive website. Throughout the day, guests attended eBooks demos and received one-on-one help with their devices and smartphones from NPL staff, and representatives from Barnes & Noble at TCC and Zinio. They also enjoyed tours of WHRO’s PBS Kids Raising Readers Literacy Van, Mario Kart racing, crafts, visits from children’s book character Froggy, free popcorn, Tumblebooks™ e-Storytime, and random prize drawings every fifteen minutes. Those who needed additional help Weekly visits to the Pretlow Anchor with understanding eBooks were Branch Library have paid off for the Jones family. They attended the invited to stick around for an afternoon Technology Tune-up Event and won training class following the Technology Tunea grand prize; a Nook HD, donated up Event at 2 PM. eBooks training classes by Barnes & Noble at TCC. C r e a t i n g
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are offered throughout the city at NPL locations this fall. For additional information, go to www.npl.lib.va.us / technology.
Thank You, Technology Tune-up Sponsors! American Indoor Karting Auto Bell Car Wash Barnes & Noble at TCC Chick-fil-A The Digital Inclusion Advisory Committee 92.9 The Wave Redial Wireless The City of Norfolk Department of Public Utilities WHRO
Published by the Friends of the Norfolk Public Library
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