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New! Download audiobooks to your iPod

Written on: May 15th, 2009 by: in News

You may be familiar with our downloadable e-audiobooks service- we subscribe to NetLibrary for access to hundreds of titles, mostly unabridged digital audio books.

You can see a brief demonstration of how to search for e-Audiobooks in the Delaware Library Catalog here, or view it below (click on the icon in the lower right of the screen for full-screen view):

To summarize: logged-in patrons can search the ebooks collection by checking the “search the E-content collection” box under the main search panel and then entering their search or browse terms as usual. Titles that are available for download are listed as [electronic resources] and when the full record is viewed, clicking the blue “eCheckout” link:

OCLC and NetLibrary recently announced their new Media Library, a downloadable interface which provides enhanced search capabilities along with options to download to iPod or other compatible devices.

Once you have searched in the catalog and clicked the echeckout link, you will be connected to NetLibrary, where you’ll be asked to enter your NetLibrary account name and password (or create one if this is your first visit). You can then select either to download the selected title to your computer, where it will play using windows audio or another compatible service, or click this link

to download it to a portable device such as an iPod, iPhone or other compatible device.

The first time you do this you will be asked to download the NetLibrary Media Center to your computer. You can click here for a four-minute online demo on installation and use. You can skip the first minute or so, because this part of the presentation deals with connecting to NetLibrary from the web, rather than from the library catalog.