These books will currently run on any Windows PCĪnd on iOS and Android mobile devices. These books are viewed on aįree reader app called Blio, which displays the books in the same beautiful way that the writer and publisher intended, and which is the first reader app to be 100% compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Our library ebooks can be viewed two ways: Through a link on our website to a “wall” of books that looks very much like browsing a traditional bookshelf, and through our library catalog in the same way as any other book. Axis 360 is a program that will allow our staff to purchase ebooks based on our patrons’ needs and wants, add them to our own library catalog, and cut down the wait times for our patrons for library ebooks.
Purchased and available especially and uniquely for patrons of Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library. In response to this demand, we are now pleased to be able to offer ebooks Patrons of Turner Memorial Library want access to ebooks, but because the demand is so high statewide, they often have to wait for the books they want to become available.
#Axis 360 sign in registration#
In fact, the statewide registration of new ebook patrons was up 60% over the next highest month of November. Demand for library ebooks is on the rise: December of 2011 was the highest month for number of downloads and number of new patrons registered to download - not just at Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library, but statewide.
Rarely a day goes by in the typical public library now when a question about accessing library books on an ereader does not come up. InfoNet is the statewide consortium of Maine libraries who have entered into an agreement to share access to library ebooks through Overdrive, the vendor who supplies the access to these books. In 2011, library card holders from Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library downloaded 1,049 ebooks from Maine InfoNet.
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