Thursday, May 22, 2008

Thing #22 ListenNJ

I do not have an MP3 player and so I tried downloading a book on my computer at work and it wouldn't work. So I used our PC Plus computer to download a book.
I went to ListenNJ and downloaded the book "Lady Susan" by Jane Austen. First I had selected Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert but there were 21 patrons on the waiting list.

After selecting "Lady Susan" I clicked on Add to Cart. Then I clicked on Proceed to Checkout and then scrolled down to Ocean County Library and typed in my barcode number. This allowed me to download the book which opened up in the Over Drive Media Console. This put it on the desktop. On the desktop was a folder with the name of the book I choose. When I clicked on the folder it opened up into Windows Media Player. The book had 3 parts so I clicked on part 1 and listened to a few minutes of the story.

I wrote all of this information down because when patrons ask me about how to use this I can look at my notes again. We get this question every so often at the Reference Desk and when answering e-mail reference questions.

I actually think I might use this because I love to listen to stories. I used to check out a lot of the Books on Tape years ago but stopped doing it because it involved so many tapes.

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