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Digital Library Advisory Group Meeting�

October 19th, 2020

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New Features in Libby

  • Share a title and export your reading data.
    • Sharing titles: Users can now share titles on social media or directly with friends
    • Using the Share button found on a title’s Reading Journey and details screen.
    • A shared title page shows the book’s summary, basic details, and nearby libraries that offer the title in Libby.
  • This new option encourages users to socialize their favorite reads with family, friends, and followers while spreading awareness of your library’s digital collection. �
  • Exporting reading data: Users can also export their reading data, including:
    • Titles in a specific tag, their activity timeline, and a title’s Reading Journey, which includes bookmarks, notes, and highlights.
    • Learn more about exporting: https://help.libbyapp.com/en-us/6151.htm

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Gale’s Open Web Initiative and NOVELNY Access

  • Analytics reveal that most people begin their research journeys on Google, and may not go to their library web site to start.
  • The Gale Open Web Initiative provides access for those who are not searching through their local library website.
  • When open web users in New York State find select Gale resources provided through NOVELNY they will be granted product access without further prompt for authentication.
  • This may occur via Google and Google Scholar search results or links to select Gale Open Access social issue topics on gale.com.
  • When these open web users are authenticated based on their geo location, their usage will be attributed to NOVELNY’s top-level consortia location ID.

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Gale’s Open Web Initiative and NOVELNY Access

  • The New York State Library is partnering with Gale on their Open Web Initiative to make some of the NOVELNY resources more discoverable and accessible, specifically: �Gale Academic OneFile, Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine, and �Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints
  • Find Gale databases on the STLS website: https://www.stls.org/databases/

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Upcoming Gale Webinars

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RBdigital & OverDrive Merger

On June 23, 2020, OverDrive announced that it would be acquiring the assets of RBmedia’s library business, including the RBdigital platform.

The acquisition of RBdigital will bring enhanced content and features to the OverDrive platform, enabling it to better serve the needs of libraries around the world, including access to new release Recorded Books audiobooks.

Moreover, OverDrive will be exploring the addition of popular RBdigital services, like digital magazines from ZINIO, to the OverDrive platform.

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RBdigital & OverDrive Merger

How will this affect library patrons?

  • Library patrons will have access to even more great ebook and audiobook content through Overdrive and the Libby app!
  • After the migration of ebook and audiobook titles from RBdigital to OverDrive is complete on 10/26/2020, your patrons will find more than 250 additional classics titles, like works by Lewis Carroll, Emily Brontë, Jack London, and more, in the STLS OverDrive collection.
  • STLS has been publishing social media posts about ebook and audiobook migration to help get the word out about this change. You can share these posts to your library pages. ��

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We are still waiting for details on how magazine migration will be handled. Please note: Access to the RBdigital app and website will end on 12/31/2020.

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RBdigital & OverDrive Merger: Magazines

  • What is the plan for RBdigital magazines (Zinio)?
    • OverDrive is working to integrate ZINIO. They will provide updates when details are available. In the meantime, users can continue to use RBdigital to access ZINIO.
  • What will happen to downloaded or saved content on the RBdigital app?
    • Once the complete migration happens, users will no longer be able to access anything in the RBdigital app.
  • When will access to content through the RBdigital website/app officially stop?
    • Ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines have a dead stop date of 12/31/2020 on the RBdigital platform. Access to those formats on the RBdigital app and website will be removed then. These will all be migrated to OverDrive before then.
  • Find FAQs here: https://resources.overdrive.com/rbdigital-acquisition-faqs/.

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RBdigital & OverDrive Merger

  • Start preparing your patrons now.
  • Sample text:
    • IMPORTANT: In June 2020, OverDrive announced that it would be acquiring RBdigital. On 10/26/2020, all ebooks and audiobooks previously available through RBdigital will be migrated to OverDrive and available through the OverDrive & Libby apps. RBdigital magazines will be migrated later this year; access to the RBdigital app will likely end on 12/31/2020.
  • Graphics & marketing materials from OverDrive: https://resources.overdrive.com/rbdigital-transition/

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OverDrive, Sora & Public Library Connect

  • Public Library Connect
    • An OverDrive feature that links Sora to the library’s OD collection and empowers students to borrow age-appropriate ebooks and audiobooks from both their school AND from their local public library digital collections.
  • How PLC works:
    • Students add their local public library in the Sora app. 
    • They’re presented with all the age-appropriate titles available to them in the library’s OverDrive collection.
    • Students borrow titles using existing school credentials.
  • This is a great opportunity for partnership with your local schools!
  • Learn more about the Sora app for students, here: https://company.overdrive.com/k-12-schools/discover-sora/
  • To help your patrons add our OverDrive collection to their Sora app, watch this video: https://resources.overdrive.com/adding-a-public-library/

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Counting Stats from Schools

  • Open discussion:

How will we count stats attributed to schools that are served by more than one library?

School/District

Number of Checkouts

Corning City School District

42

Greater Southern Tier BOCES

8

Wayland-Cohocton Central School District

78

September 2020 Stats