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DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE
E-Resources at the Library
Corey Friedrich, M.I.L.S
Director, Chippewa River District Library
The library offers lots of great and try to buy enough copies download it. There is no wait-
services, like our e-resourc- to keep wait times reasonable. ing for another patron to finish
es. These include electronic with it. Everything is instantly
books, more commonly known Publishers treat digital cop- available. Checkouts are lim-
as e-books, electronic audio- ies of materials different than ited to five items per month.
books, streaming television they do physical ones. With We only budget a certain
shows, movies, and mu- physical books, the library amount of money for Hoopla,
sic. We offer most of these buys the book and then owns so we restrict the number of
through two of our services it forever. With digital books, checkouts to make sure all
- Hoopla and Libby. Both of publishers have several mod- library cardholders have the
these services offer digital els they sell to libraries. In option to download titles.
materials, but they do it in dif- some cases, it is the same as
ferent ways. Patrons can ac- physical books. The library With Libby, the spending is
cess both Hoopla and Libby by buys a copy and owns it for- planned and the collection is
downloading the app to their ever. With other e-books, curated by staff. With Hoopla,
device. the publisher may decide the the spending is done at will by
library can have it for a year our patrons without staff inter-
Our e-book purchases are or two, or a predetermined vention. Both services should
similar to our physical book amount of checkouts, and provide users with something
purchases. We buy a certain then it will disappear from our of interest.
number of copies of an item catalog. This is because phys-
and loan it out to patrons one ical books deteriorate. Pub-
at a time. Popular titles may lishers assume a physical book
result in you being placed on a will deteriorate over time, and
hold list until a copy becomes we will buy another copy when
available. The same is true the book falls apart. But digital
of e-books through Libby. A books never deteriorate. One
nice feature of Libby is that copy can last forever. The
you will receive an email when publisher can’t assume they
the item becomes available will get another sale down the
to you. E-books are checked line. Instead, they plan for
out for a certain period just the book to expire so libraries
like a physical library book, will have to buy another one if
and when the due date arrives they still have demand for it.
Libby will automatically return
the book for you. So, no late With Hoopla, patrons can
fees! Libby will also send an look at the entire catalog of
email to alert you when the what they offer without library
due date is near. The library intervention. Users can then
staff has to determine what decide what to read, watch,
our patrons are interested in or listen to and then instantly
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