SJRLC Mobile Services Potential Participants Meeting Cherry Hill Free Public Library August 3, 2005

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SJRLC Mobile ServicesPotential Participants
MeetingCherry Hill Free Public LibraryAugust 3,
2005
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A Little Bit About Overdrive

• Founded in 1986
• Digital audio books, digital media, and eBooks
  specialists
• Over 200 digital content suppliers
• Thousands of titles in all genres available for
  libraries

OverDrive and its partners deliver digital
content to libraries.
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Current Overdrive Customers (includes ebook
customers)

• Cleveland Public Library (OH)
• King County Library System (WA)
• San Jose Public Library (CA)
• New York Public Library (NY)
• Denver Public Library (CO)
• Las Vegas Public Library (NV)
• White Plains Public Library (NY)
• Metro Net Library Consortium (MI)
• Cuyahoga County Public Library (OH)
• Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center (IL)
• Park Ridge Public Library (IL)
• Burlington County Library System (NJ)
• SEO Southeastern Ohio Automation Consortium (OH)
• Essex County Public Library (UK)

OverDrives Digital Library Reserve is in use in
hundreds of libraries
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Digital Content

• front-list, bestsellers, popular titles
• superior user experience
• integration with ILS system
• customized MARC records
• reporting tools
• customized web site

Supply the digital media your patrons wantwhen
and where they want it.
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Customized Patron Interface

• Consistent library/consortia branding
• Effective merchandising
• editorially-driven lists
• tie-in with library promotions
• jackets, excerpts, author bios
• Browse titles, categories, featured topics
• Comprehensive Help FAQ
• Library/consortia is emphasized OverDrive is
  minimized

Customized site can complement your librarys
online presence.
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How might this look?

• Lets look at a few consortia pages
• Notice, lots of face out jackets
• Fully customizablewe decide which titles to
  promote
• Can have staff suggestions and recently
  returned.

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Sorting Options
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Member Libraries
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Recently Returned
New Additions
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Member Libraries
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Add to Bookbag
Available copies Loan period
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Seamless integration with your catalog

• Customized MARC records from OCLC (for a fee)
• Information specific to digital content
• Customized 856 field for hyperlink to eBook

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powerful reporting in real time

• Real time preformatted reports
• View borrowing activity by subject, format, date
  range, etc.
• Web site statistics available popular searches,
  site visits, session length, page views, etc.
• For consortia usage reports by library

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choose from leading audio suppliers

• Titles from Blackstone Audio, Brilliance Audio,
  Listen Live, Books in Motion, and more
• Unabridged and abridged titles
• Range of digital audio from 2.00 to 49

Choose from a wide selection of audio suppliers.
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the best sellers most popular materials

• Best-selling authors
• Nora Roberts
• Tom Clancy
• Stephen Coonts
• P.J. O'Rourke
• Elizabeth Lowell
• Amy Tan
• Catherine Coulter
• Top publishers
• Highest quality
• Unabridged audio
• Great narrators

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the titles patrons want
Popular Fiction

• Brilliance Audio
• Blackstone Audiobooks
• Books in Motion
• Sounds True
• Audio Bookshelf
• Paperback Digital
• Dozens more!

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the titles patrons want
Popular Fiction
Sara Paretsky Catherine Coulter Anne Perry Olivia
Goldsmith Amy Tan Tom Clancy
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the titles patrons want
Best Selling Authors Popular Fiction
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the titles patrons want
Language Learning

• Penton Overseas
• McGraw-Hill Professional
• Twin Sisters Productions

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the titles patrons want
Language Learning
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the titles patrons want
Business and Self Help

• Listen and Live
• Wiley Audio

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Maximum Access Option
The best of both worlds

• Unlimited Audiobook downloads from the Blackstone
  Publisher collection
• You pick your titles and build a custom
  collection
• Simple to add to your DLR system

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Other Publishers

• One user, one copy
• Audio books price up to 70 less than physical
  equivalent
• Audio content starts at 1.00
• Flexibility to build collection
• pick and choose individual titles
• no minimum quantities required

J.D. Robb Visions In Death Library Edition
Unabridged 9 CDs 97.25 OverDrive Audio Book
39.25 Savings 58.00
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automated online ordering

• Place orders online
• Comprehensive metadata for each title
• Recommended orders
• Collection development assistance
• Consortium-friendly
• Multiple selectors can access ordering tool
• share pending order information
• Speedy fulfillment

View information about the title before purchase.
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digital content goes where patrons go

• Hundreds of audio devices, many under 49
• Burn to CD
• Listen in car
• PDA, PocketPCs, Smartphones
• Patron can download content multiple times from
  any location

Enjoy digital books at home or on the go.
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superior user experience

• Superb sound quality, portability and navigation
• Engineered for dial-up or broadband access
• One file format, no confusion
• Accessible to visually impaired

specially designed for ease of use.
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easy to enjoy

• Specially designed software for long format audio
  books
• Special navigation links
• Bookmark, jump to, resume, speed control,
• Parts fit on one CD
• Download on dial-up_at_ 3-5 minutes
• About one hour of audio per part

Audio book software uses the free Windows Media
Player Series 9.
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Benefits of providing downloadable audiobooks

• Demonstrate leadership innovation
• Increase circulation without added physical
  handling costs
• Adapt to changing demands of customers
• Reach customers who dont visit the physical
  branch
• Another option for blind and visually impaired
  and home-schooled children

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Key Points

• Content patrons want and its easy to use
• We choose the collection
• Custom branded site seamlessly integrates with
  ours
• Library card authentication
• Growing list of audio suppliers no exclusives
• OverDrive audio books are live at many leading
  libraries

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How does this all look from the customers point
of view?

• Lets look at the media player
• Demo available at
• http//www.dlrinc.com/AudioDemo.asp

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Library Services That Can Be Delivered to Mobile
Phones

1. Ability to exchange text messages with customers
   (answer questions send notifications
2. Optimize library website for viewing on mobile
   phone
3. Deliver canned or generated information in
   response to text message
4. Deliver content updates that the customer
   selected to receive (RSS)
5. Deliver Information via voice commands

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Sample SMS Reference Svcs.

• Southeastern Louisiana University Text a
  Librarian Service www.selu.edu/Library/ServicesDe
  pt/referenc/textalibrarian.html

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Sample SMS Reference Svcs.

• Southeastern Louisiana University Text a
  Librarian Service www.selu.edu/Library/ServicesDe
  pt/referenc/textalibrarian.html

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Sample SMS Reference Svcs.

• Curtin University of Technology (Australia) SMS
  a Query Service
• http//library.curtin.edu.au/contact/sms.html

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WAP Demo/SMS Demo

• YAHOO http//mobile.yahoo.com/search/wapdemo
• WAP emulator http//www.waptiger.com/waptiger
• Directory of Wap sites http//mobile.yahoo.com/re
  source_center/wapdir

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Example of QandANJ as a WAP- page being viewed on
a cell phone
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SMS Demo

• Yahoo SMS
• http//mobile.yahoo.com/search/smsdemo

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SMS Demo

• Yahoo SMS
• http//mobile.yahoo.com/search/smsdemo

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RSS Feeds

• How does a feed look when viewed through an RSS
  aggregator (i.e. Bloglines)

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RSS Feeds

• How does a feed look when viewed through Firefox
  toolbar?

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