2014 Teens Top Ten Booklist!

Looking for a great book that other teens have loved?  Look no further than YALSA's 2014 Teens Top Ten list, a list of the 10 best books written in 2013, nominated and voted for by Teens!  Most of these books are available in the Youth Room at the Wellesley Free Library, and many are available as downloadable ebooks.

1. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
2. Splintered by A.G. Howard
3. The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson
4. The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
5. Monument 14: Sky on Fire by Emmy Laybourne
6. Earth Girl by Janet Edwards
7. The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau
8. Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
9. Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
10. The Eye of Minds by James Dashner

New Kid’s & Teen website provides a kid-friendly digital library experience

New Kid’s & Teen website provides a kid-friendly digital library experience

Introduce your kids to the Minuteman Library Network's Collection of digital titles

The Minuteman Library Network has expanded its services with a new digital collection website experience just for kids & teens. The main digital collection, digital.minlib.net, now has a separate site to provide a safe and easy browsing experience for kids & teens.

The Minuteman Library Network, and all its member libraries, recognizes the need to provide a safe environment for kids & teens to browse library materials. Just as the children's & teen sections of the physical libraries are sectioned off, the same experience is now available on the digital collection. This appealing and user-friendly page contains eBooks & audiobooks. Browsing can be done by subject, reading level or interest level. Check this page out now, http://minuteman.lib.overdrive.com/KIDS .

The Kid’s & Teen Collection site filters the overall digital collection to just show Children’s and Young Adult content, which gets kids & teens to the titles they want faster! This new service, powered by OverDrive, is free for users with a library card. Digital titles are available anytime, anywhere and expire automatically, so no need to worry about late fees. 

About OverDrive
OverDrive is a leading multichannel digital distributor of eBooks, digital audiobooks, music and video. We supply a secure lending platform for 22,000 libraries, schools and retailers worldwide with support for all major computers and devices, including iPhone®, iPad®, Nook®, Android™ phones and tablets, and Kindle® (U.S. only). OverDrive has been named to the EContent 100 as a company that matters most in the digital content industry and is a member of the 2012 Technology Fast 500. Founded in 1986, OverDrive is based in Cleveland. www.overdrive.com 

Do you use a Nook to download ebooks from the library?

If you use a Nook to download your favorite kids and teens (or any other) ebooks from the library, it just got a whole lot easier!  Check out our catalog of downloadable ebooks and audiobooks at digital.minlib.net.

OverDrive App Comes to NOOK®

October 2nd, 2012 Michael Lovett

 

Borrowing eBooks and audiobooks from the library just got a whole lot easier for users of the NOOK HD, NOOK HD+, NOOK Tablet™ and NOOK Color™. Last week, Barnes & Noble added the OverDrive Media Console app to the NOOK Apps™ storefront. This NOOK app enables users to wirelessly borrow eBooks and MP3 audiobooks from the library.

All NOOK devices—including  NOOK 1^st Edition,NOOK Simple Touch and NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight—have always enabled users to read eBooks borrowed from libraries and schools, but the process required sideloading the files from a computer using Adobe Digital Editions and a USB cable. Now users of NOOK HD, NOOK HD+, NOOK Tablet and NOOK Color can borrow eBooks and audiobooks wirelessly using the OverDrive app.

Users can visit the NOOK Apps storefront to install the free OverDrive Media Console app. The app enables users to locate a library or school nearby, browse or search their eBook and MP3 audiobook collection and, after entering a valid library card or school ID,  check out and download the title for a lending period of one to three weeks (depending on the library or school’s policies). At the end of the lending period, the title simply expires.

The version of OMC available in the NOOK Apps storefront is OMC for Android v2.5, so any instructions found on library help pages related to OMC for Android will apply to the NOOK app. While the app is free, users will need a valid NOOK account in order to download the app.

Michael Lovett is Public Relations and Social Media Specialist at OverDrive.