#9 eAudiobooks are Here!

eAudiobooks quietly arrived in St. Albert in May. The records were seamlessly added to our catalogue. If you noticed an item that said "electronic resource" that is what it is.

Downloadable eAudiobooks is a service provided by Recorded Books which is available through the library’s subscription to NetLibrary.

To establish a NetLibrary account, you must first create your acocunt through the SAPL Website. But once you have a Netlibrary user name and password (I know, I know … you’re tired of user names and passwords) you can access NetLibrary directly and bypass the SAPL site.

For this discovery exercise, you merely need to familiarize yourself a bit with the structure of NetLibrary's Downloadable eAudiobooks site and get an idea of the types of titles you can find here. Take a look around and locate a few titles of interest. If you would like to try downloading to an MP3 player, the library has purchased three players for you to work with.

Discovery Resources:

Introduction to Netlibrary* - this 12 minute tutorial covers the downloading process for Netlibrary audiobooks using Windows Media Player 10. (be patient, it may take a few minutes to upload this for viewing) This tutorial was created by the original creators of 23 things so it does not show our library site, but it is still very useful.

Discovery Exercise:

1. Establish a NetLibrary account for yourself by accessing Netlibrary through the SAPL site.
   
2. Once you have an account created, you can access NetLibrary directly at http://netlibrary.com
3. Click on the eAudiobooks link and explore some of the 1300 + titles.
4. Create a blog post about your findings. Did you locate a title that you might want to try out and download once you have a player?