Central Dispatch

Penguin Publishing and OWWL2Go

Penguin Publishing, a leader publisher of books and their electronic counterparts, has made a number of recent controversial decisions regarding the distribution and licensing of their e-book content. The decisions dramatically affect our patrons' access to Penguin's digital content.

OWWL2Go Question of the Week

Every week  we will be presenting an interesting question from our queue of OWWL2Go Help Tickets. This week we deal with a question about viewing e-book on a Pandigital SuperNova DLX tablet. The Pandigital SuperNova is one of the increasing amounts of lower cost competitors to the more expensive tablets.

Coming Soon

New blog entries for teens will be coming soon!

Upcoming Training Opportunities

Online and in-person training from the Central Library...

Kindle Books Coming to OWWL2go

April 20, 2011 was a big day in Library Land, especially for those of us who deal heavily in ebooks, Overdrive, and supporting our patrons in using ebooks available through Overdrive. Below are some basic facts as we know them about the Kindle Lending Library that will appear "later this year."

GrantSpace Launch Party: Free training for grantseekers!

Celebrate the launch of GrantSpace, build skills that will help you get grants, and win prizes!

eBook Tutorials & Videos

Last week's PLS Notes featuring eBook resources inspired a lot of link sharing about eBooks. This is great! The more we share what we have discovered on our own or what we have heard through the grapevine the more we will be able to help our patrons.