Free video courses from leading universities!

Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education.

20 new courses and lectures from Yale, Stanford, and Harvard have been added. Some popular courses/lectures are:

Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Harvard's Michael Sandel
Introduction to Political Philosophy by Yale's Steven B. Smith
Visualizing Desire by Stanford's Brian Knutson
Understanding Computers and the Internet by Harvard's David J. Malan

Check out many more at: http://academicearth.org/

OverDrive Android App Available Soon

OverDrive will release OverDrive Media Console for Android on December 21. The free software for audiobooks can be downloaded to popular phones running the Android operating system, and used to enjoy audiobooks from your ‘Virtual Branch’ website.

Android users can now browse your collection, check out with a library card, and download audiobooks on-the-go. OMC for Android offers popular listening features like resume from furthest played point and custom bookmarking. At this time, OverDrive MP3 Audiobooks are the only digital format available for Android.

While in beta, OMC for Android will be available for download exclusively at the OverDrive Media Console page at overdrive.com. When version 1.0 is released, we will update your Help pages. During this beta period, users will be encouraged to send any support issues and feedback directly to us. If you should receive support questions directly, please do not hesitate to send them along to our Support Team at support@libraryreserve.com. If you're interested in promoting OMC for Android, please contactpartnerservices@overdrive.com.

Stay tuned, as we expect to announce more OverDrive Media Console mobile releases in the coming months!

(Source: OverDrive Digital Dispatch Archive)

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OverDrive Digital Bookmobile at St. Petersburg Main Library -- December 15th.

Experience eBooks, audiobooks & more on computers & devices at the St. Petersburg Main Library this-coming Tuesday December 15th from 10am-4pm.

3745 Ninth Ave N. St. Petersburg, Fl.

Event details are available at: http://www.digitalbookmobile.com/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=217

Facebook and Twitter 'Share' Functionality Now Available at OverDrive

To provide users with a more interactive experience, OverDrive has added the functionality to post details about a download title to the social networking sites Facebook and Twitter. For more information on these social networking sites, please visit www.facebook.com and www.twitter.com.

Postings on Facebook will include a brief description of a title, jacket cover, URL to a title’s details page on our download website, as well as an optional personal comment. Twitter posts will include a brief “tweet” on downloading the book from our website, as well as a link to our download collection. It is our hope that this interactive feature will help us increase awareness and maximize circulation of our download service.

Library Database Updates!

This Friday, December 4, the College Center for Library Automation will be updating the SFX software. LINCCWeb and SFX will remain available during this process.

As part of this update, a new auto-complete feature for the A-Z Journal List will be introduced. When letters or keywords are entered in the search box, a list of titles that begin with, or contain, those keywords will appear. This allows users to select a journal title from the list without continuing to enter the full title.