Starkville Public Library Books and Bytes

Name: Starkville Public Library
Location: Starkville, Mississippi, United States

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

OverDrive expands compatibility with WMA audio e-books

On Tuesday, June 16, OverDrive released the new version of OverDrive® Media Console. All new users will automatically download the latest version, and existing users will be prompted to upgrade to the latest and greatest version of OMC (scheduled for late June).
Nearly all OverDrive WMA Audiobooks in your download collection are now compatible with the iPod®, iPhoneT, iPod touch®, and iPod nano®, as well as Zune® and thousands of other portable devices, with a simple upgrade of OverDrive Media Console to version 3.2 on Windows® PCs.
Premier publishers, including Random House Audio, Hachette Audio, Penguin Audio, BBC Audiobooks America, Brilliance Audio, Tantor Media, and many more, allow this for all of the WMA Audiobooks OverDrive offers. Best sellers such as Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight," Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers," John Grisham's "The Appeal," and Chuck Palahniuk's "Pygmy" will become iPod-compatible downloads, along with highly-anticipated releases like Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol" and Tami Hoag's "The Trouble with J.J."
In addition to enhanced transfer functionality, the new version of OverDrive Media Console also offers several highly requested features, which allow users to:
• Send MP3 Audiobooks to the iTunes® Library with Transfer Wizard.
• Burn audiobook parts to CD in just a few clicks using Burn Wizard--on all supported Windows operating systems.
• Perform a test burn.
• Enjoy a new playback option wherein OverDrive Media Console automatically resumes playback from the most recently played point.
• Let OverDrive Media Console alert them of software releases and news about the software--automatically.
• With iTunes v8.1.0.52 (or newer) in place, use Transfer Wizard to send titles to the iPod shuffle®.
The growing collection of Mac®-friendly, iPod-compatible OverDrive MP3 Audiobooks will still be available to help libraries better serve patrons with Apple computers

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Calling all Young Adults and Children

The Summer Reading Program will be starting soon and the library has stocked up on some new books. Information about the Reading Programs will be available very soon.

YA:
Jerk by Jonathan Friesen
Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead
The dark is rising sequence (series) by Susan Cooper
Vampirates series by Justin Somper
The forest of hands and teeth by Carrie Ryan
Star Wars Legacy: broken
Manga mania villains, how to draw by Christopher Hart
Flygirl by Sherri Smith
Twice upon a marigold by Jean Ferris
Gone by Michael Grant
Pendragon series by DJ MacHale

Kids:
Swiss Family Robinson (graphic novel) by Martin Powell
Sleeping beauty (graphic novel) by Martin Powell
Pictures from our vacation by Lynne Perkins
Dragon pizzaria by Mary Morgan
Superhero ABC by Bob McLeod
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
Art from her heart by Kathy Whitehead
Pale Male by Janet Schulman
Thump, quack, moo by Doreen Cronin
Over the river by Derek Anderson
How to draw robots by Mark Bergin

Friday, May 08, 2009

Lunch with Books - May 13

Friends of the Starkville Public Library are hosting lunch with books at noon on Wednesday, May 13. The guest speaker is Rick Cleveland, author of Boo: a life in baseball, well-lived. This book is a biography about the life of baseball great and Mississippian, Boo Ferris. Bring a sack lunch and enjoy lunch at the library. Drinks provided by the Friends.

Friday, May 01, 2009

New MP3 audio ebooks available

The library recently added 166 new MP3 audio e-books to the collection. The MP3 format allows users with iPods, iPhones, and other MP3 players to download and listen to books. Parents check these out as new kids and young adult titles have been added - summer travel is coming, so stock up!
The Mickey Mantle novel by Peter Golenbook
Across five Aprils by Irene Hunt
Always outnumbered by Walter Mosley
Animal farm by George Orwell
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
Beyond Tuesday morning by Karen Kingsbury
The book of kings by James Thackara
The bronze bow by Elizabeth Speare
The camelot caper by Elizabeth Peters
The complete tales of Beatrix Potter
Death match by Lincoln Child
Diary of a worm by Doreen Cronin
Family honor by Robert Parker
The flying cross by Jack Hunter
The Friday night knitting club by Kate Jacobs
Goodnight moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Many others are available - this is just a sample list.

Friday, March 13, 2009

March Lunch With Books

Mark your calendar for Wednesday, March 18 at noon to hear R.H. Brown (WCBI television host) and Gwendolyn Outlaw Sharp discussing her book, The Losing Winner at the Starkville Public Library. Bring your brown bag lunch and the Friends of the Library are providing healthy snacks and refreshments. Don't miss out - join us at the Starkville Public Library!

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

New Books at the library

Here is a sample of the new books that are waiting to be checked out at the library:
The graveyard book - Neil Gaiman
The private patient - PD James
The associate - John Grisham
Hot, flat and crowded - Thomas Friedman
Samuel Johnson - Peter Martin
Abraham Lincoln: great American historians on our 16th President
I am potential - Patrick Hughes
The writing class - Jincy Willett
Home - Marilynne Robinson
Books - Larry McMurtry
A most wanted man - John Le'Carre
Swallowing darkness - Laurell Hamilton
The last invisible boy - Evan Kuhlman
The storyteller's candle - Lucia Gonzalez
Tiger moon - Antonia Michaelis
Papa and me - Arthur Dorros
Too many toys - David Shannon
Jeff Gordon - Nicole Pristash

Monday, January 26, 2009

New digital format available

Visit the library's Ebook site to find and download ebooks or audiobooks. We now have MP3 audiobooks that can be downloaded to your iPod or iPhone as well as your PC or Mac or just about any handheld device. It requires you to have the Overdrive Media Console and iTunes to transfer the file from your computer to your MP3 player.
A sampling of some of the audiobooks available:
April 4, 1968 - Michael Dyson
Big country - Louis L'Amour
Black beauty - Anna Sewell
Bridge - Lisa Bergren
Cape Refuge - Terri Blackstock
Christmas carol - Charles Dickens
Deadly housewives - Sara Paretsky
Double play - Robert Parker
Dr Blair's French in no time
Dr Blair's German in no time
Dr Blair's Spanish in no time
Enchantment - Orson Scott Card
50 famous fairy tales
Hear-Say English
Iced - Carol Higgins Clark
Mere Christianity - CS Lewis
Must love dogs - Claire Cook
Quitters, Inc. - Stephen King
Story of my life - Helen Keller