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Help! I Got an E-reader! Now What?
Drop-in and Learn – offered at 4 PM on the following Sundays:
January 8, January 15, January 22 & January 29
Please register at the library or by calling and leaving a message at 413-423-3348 and please, if you have one, bring your e-reader with you.
The Library closes at 4 PM on Sundays, but we’ve set aside this quiet time for you to learn how to use your e-reader or ours, and to learn how to get free books from libraries on your e-reader, home computer, smartphone, or tablet. If you do not have a device we will show you how to download e-books and audiobooks one of our computers.
Craft Day on Sunday, January 8th from 1:30 to 3:30.
Library Closings
The library will be closed:
January 1st & 2nd to celebrate the New Year.
January 16th in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Listen to WHAI for snow closings
E-Reader Policy Approve by Trustees
E-readers will be used at the Erving Public Library and circulated to adults starting in January. The Trustees have adopted a policy for use.
Borrowing Rules
- Patron must have a current Adult (18 and older) library card in good standing from Erving or another library in the C/WMARS network.
- The E-Reader must be checked out and returned at the Erving Library desk and handed directly to a staff person to check in.
- The E-Reader may not be returned to another library, nor placed in the book or media drop outside.
- E-Readers are loaned for two weeks and are not renewable. Patrons are encouraged to return E-Readers when their need is met.
- E-Readers cannot be “Claimed Returned”
- If overdue, the fee is $1 per day.
Patrons will be charged the full price of the e-reader if lost or damaged. Any lost or damaged cables or cases will also be the responsibility of the user as will any items added to the e-reader either intentionally or accidentally. There will be a $10 charge if used for Internet purposes and sites are not cleared upon return.
Liability The Library is not responsible for any liability, damages or expense resulting from use or misuse of the device, connection of the device to other electronic devices, or data loss resulting from use of device. The Library is not responsible for downloaded content on the device. Any use of the device for illegal purposes, unauthorized copying of copyright-protected material in any format, or transmission of threatening, harassing, defamatory or obscene materials is strictly prohibited.
The above is an excerpt from the policy approved by the Erving Public Library Board of Trustees on December 1, 2011, subject to further review.
EVERGREEN MIGRATION DELAYED AGAIN
We wanted to inform you that there will be another delay for the Evergreen software coming to our C/W MARS catalog. The
Central/Western Massachusetts Automated Resource Sharing (C/W MARS) system, accessible online at: http://www.cwmars.org will continue to provide access to all of the library resources in our area, but the software is changing to a system called Evergreen.
When the new system is online, the Friends of the Library will be offering public information sessions. If you encounter any difficulty, I’m here to help.
Barbara Friedman, EPL Director 413-423-3348
On Monday, December 12, 2011,
C/W MARS launched a redesign of its OverDrive Digital Catalog, http://digitalcatalog.cwmars.org. All the information you are used to having available will still be there, but in a new, cleaner layout. Additional enhancements such as browsing specific format collections (EPUB, MP3, Kindle), suggested read-alikes for titles, and new filters for searching will be introduced. Patrons should find the new catalog a great tool for finding downloadable ebooks and audiobooks.
The Erving Library Buys the Hottest Books, CDs & DVDs – If you don’t find them on the shelf, they’re being read or viewed. Reserve these new or “soon to be released” titles.
More listed at: http://wmars.cwmars.org/search~S80
Some CDs Recently Added to EPL
Clear As Day (Scotty McCreery)
Need You Now (Lady Antebellum)
Own The Night (Lady Antebellum)
Revelation Road (Shelby Lynne)
Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton
Play The Blues
DVDs: New or soon to Arrive at EPL
Apollo 18
Cars 2
The Change-Up
The Debt
The Help
Midnight in Paris
Mr. Poppers Penguins
Real Steel
Sleepy Hallow
The Smurfs
Spy Kids 4
Super 8
Thomas & Friends / Rescue on the Rails
Water for Elephants
Winnie the Pooh
FOR READERS WHO LOVED THE HUNGER GAMES—-RESERVE THESE TITLES!
-Uglies Series by Scott Westerfeld
- Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi.
- The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman
- Michael Vey: the prisoner of cell 25 by Evans,
Richard Paul
- The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
- The Fox Inheritance by Mary E. Pearson.
- Epitaph Road by David Patneaude
- Under the Dome by Stephan King (for older readers)
- The Maze Runner series – James Dashner
- Gone by Michael Grant
- Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith
- Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
- Unwind by Neal Shusterman
- Dirt Eaters by Dennis Foon
- The Knife of Never Letting Go – Patrick Ness
