Thursday, August 23, 2007

SuffolkWave

Really liked SuffolkWave's down loadable e-media site. You can chose from audio books, videos, and music. Took a look at the Children's Collection under fiction and found popular titles such as Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events and Because of Winn Dixie. Most of the nonfiction offerings were foreign language material. Under video holdings found titles such as Bear Snores On (can't wait to preview) and Teacher from the Black Lagoon.
Liked that an account was not needed for this exercise--unlike many of the others. But, I still needed to install Overdrive Media Console. Had some difficulty downloading Overdrive. It required that I update and download Windows Media Player 11. When I tried to do that my home computer wouldn't support it (I didn't have a Pac 2, not sure what this is). Finally downloaded Media Player 10 (that worked) and went back and finished installing Overdrive. So, although I didn't need an account, still wasn't as easy as I hoped.
Believe it will be a great service , I feel patrons will find it to be user friendly. It is a great way to serve our patrons from home. It is set up like many online services with a shopping cart and checkout. No credit card needed, just need your library card. :)

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