Reviewed
patron library accounts for borrowed materials, explained regulations regarding borrowing and returning library materials, processed fines as needed for delinquent materials
Not exact matches
Patrons with Harvard IDs and PINs should renew
library materials directly through HOLLIS + by clicking «My
Account / Renew.»
The high school provided EBSCO databases for all of our
library patrons and their families to use as well as NoodleTools
accounts.
There have been a couple of questions lately about what happens to a
patron's Hoopla
account if they change their home
library or if they get a new
library card number in Nexpress.
The attached document can help you walk
patrons through the process of updating their Hoopla
account after their card number or home
library changes in Koha.
Library patrons can check out these digital magazines and newspapers with a valid
library card and read them through their NOOK
account via a NOOK tablet device or Free NOOK Reading App available for a multitude of smartphones and tablets.
Zinio for
Libraries was developed in order to allow
patrons to check out magazines through your local
library, login using your
library account, then download them onto your Android device to read anytime, online or offline.
Currently, Overdrive is the only
library system that allows
patrons to borrow ebooks directly to their Amazon
account.
Infrastructure is changing to allow
patrons to download selections into their e-Book readers or devices, request a hold on specific titles currently charged to other users, and see e-Book checkouts within their individual
library accounts.
Yeah, it looks an awful lot like an Amazon shopping page and I have to be logged into my Amazon
account to get the book... The NYPL's Christopher Platt recently told Publishing Trends that since Kindle added
library lending, «Our average new -
patron registrations have more than doubled from 80 a day to 172 a day.
Patrons must do a one - time
account setup using their
library cards.
Libraries must sponsor each individual reading, as each
patron reading must be
accounted for, which means publishers will get paid each time a
patron anywhere reads any part of any of its titles in our system.
To download a book for Kindle from Multnomah County
Library, a
patron needs both a
library card and an Amazon
account.
If the
patron adjusted the font size, our system would take that into
account so that the
library would still pay the same amount.
Whilst e-book lending is lucrative for publishers (even if e-books are free to
library patrons, the
library pays for every transaction) there is a growing nervousness that a commercial market may never develop on
account of readers having come to expect that e-books are free.
A librarian noted that, «with ePUB format the
patrons need a PC in addition to their e-book reader; they also have to create an Adobe Digital editions
account and download the software; with Kindle they are transferred to their Amazon
account» — and for a
library with multiple e-book vendors,
patrons may have to go to even more sites to find their e-book.
Libraries will no longer have to send
patrons to different apps to access content purchased from different vendors or require users to establish online
accounts, usernames, or passwords with multiple commercial providers.
Another librarian pointed out that while the local
library system publicized its e-book collection on the
library's website and social media
accounts, these methods were best at reaching
patrons who were already «plugged in» to the
library's services:
As a result, one controversy surrounding Kindle
Library Lending is that
library patrons who choose to download a Kindle e-book are redirected to Amazon's website, where they must log in with an Amazon
account (as opposed to completing the entire process within their
library's system).
Patrons can recommend buying a title not in the local collection, and librarians can manage when to trigger an acquisition; there are «buy links» to about 300 national and local independent booksellers which generate credits back to the local
library's OverDrive
account (3 to 8 percent); and there are recommendation services.
Boopsie's spring survey appears to corroborate Capira's usage data, with 94 percent of respondents saying that
patrons use their app for
account management and 90 percent saying that they use it to access information about the
library, compared with 82 percent saying it is commonly used for catalog searches.
Specifically, Penguin might have been angry that when a
library patron selects «Get for Kindle» on OverDrive, he or she is sent straight to Amazon's website (rather than checking out the book from within the
library site) and has to be logged into his or her Amazon
account to get the book.