Marianne Silver's blog

Overdrive Media Console, the app that enables you to check out our e-books, has been updated to v2.6.5.  Due to a change in Apple's privacy policies, iOS users will be asked to re-authorize with their Adobe ID.  After you have updated the app, you will be prompted to enter your Adobe ID and password.  Android users are not affected by this update.  Any questions, please call the reference desk at x125 or x126. 

The New City Library Board will have a special meeting tonight, Wednesday, Feb. 13, at 5:30pm in the conference room.  The public is invited to attend.

Thanks to the support of our patrons, the combined New City and West Nyack library budgets were approved 654 yeas to 284 nays.  It was an impressive and encouraging turnout.

The New City Library welcomes new board members Victor Berger and George Jacobson.  Incumbent Ed Kallen was elected for a second term.  Thank you to all the candidates who endeavoured to serve on the board - Cecily Cohen, Christian Cortelli, and Terence Mulgrew.

We would also like to thank Terri Thal for her years of dedication to this library and community as she finishes her term this month.  Her insight, expertise, and diligence were valuable assets to the board.

Enterprise, the public library catalog, has been upgraded.  Some of the improvements you will notice:  a pickup by date for holds will be displayed; holds can now be easily unsuspended; active holds (meaning they are already on the shelf waiting to be picked up) can be cancelled online; and, with a switch to a server with more resources, greater stability with less crashes.   If you use the Firefox browser and the catalog is not displaying correctly, please clear your cache by going to Tools->Options and click on the Privacy tab. Clink on the link that says "Clear your recent history" and only have Cache checked. Set Time range to Everything and click OK.

As always, if you need assistance, please stop by the adult reference desk or give us a call at 634-4997 x 125 or x126.  Or text us at 265-010; type newcityref: and your question.  We're here to help!

eBooks and eReaders are exciting technologies that enable you to get your hands on that new bestseller at the speed of light.  You can enlarge the typeface, bookmark your favorite parts, take notes, and also store or access from the cloud thousands of other titles with just one small, portable device.  That’s great!!  And now you’ve found out that your public library has free e-books!  Life doesn’t get any better, does it?

Well, unfortunately, there’s going to be a little rain on this parade.  You see, of the Big Six publishers, only Random House is currently allowing unrestricted sales of their e-titles to public libraries.   And they just raised their prices significantly.  Hachette, Simon & Schuster and Macmillan will not sell to public libraries at all.  Penguin recently ceased sales to libraries (and is even considering cutting off access to titles already purchased), and Harper Collins sells their titles with a 26-use licensing restriction.