CPL hits the 21st century...ish
Well, it seems that downloadable audiobooks are finally available from the Chicago Public Library! There are a bunch of awesome titles there (including a few Terry Pratchetts, my personal fav) and it is quite easy to understand how to get the software and download the goods.
As with CPL, there is always bad news....
This is NOT available for Macs..."Say What?" you say?
Ahh, it seems the charitable Mr Gates is taking over again...and CPL is following....making iPods pretty much out of the running as well. Awesome.
The titles are also not burnable, which makes sense, but further kicks out the iPod and the Mac out in the cold for good for now.
Well, we can always hope for change. Heck, the ALA has a new web portal site...thats something!
posted by veronica @ 3:05 PM
4 Comments:
How can you provide audio books not compatible with an iPod? Silly CPL...
Great idea though. Our library is currently searching for an audio book program for our patrons. Seems like there are many options but none provide everything we need. Some make you use clunky players provided by the audio book program itself (these players would never get returned) while others make you download the audio books from home and not within the library (not good for a library whos patrons don't have computers at home.
If anyone knows of any other audio book programs around, give me a heads up!
Actually the entire Institute system is Mac run. I work in the Ryerson library archives of the Institute and it is wonderbar to see that all the computers are Macs! You would think we'd get a discount......
Just the other day, I wrote a blog entry about how frustrating it is becoming to be a librarian who is a Maclover in a PC world. You would think that CPL would realize that there are people who use Macs out there. I was so excited to hear that the Art Institute uses Macs. Bravo!
Macs! Yes! Nice post and good comments folks!
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