Hello everyone, welcome to you today's session Getting Started with Libby.
This one hour session has been designed to support professional development for library staff.
In today's webinar you're going to learn how to get your users started with Libby. the library reading app.
This training is great for those who are new to Libby, or anyone who would like an in depth refresher, or those who would like a walk through of the most recent updates to the Libby app.
There's no prerequisite to joining today's webinar
We'll begin with some introductions. My name is Lisa, I'm a Product Trainer here on the Training team at OverDrive.
I've been with OverDrive for about six years and I was a classroom teacher before that.
And I'm very fortunate today to be joined by my wonderful colleague Lauren
Hi Lauren. Hi everyone my name's Lauren Bajda. I've been on, at OverDrive for six years traveling with
The Digital Bookmobile, educating libraries and users about the Libby app, and then on the Training team as well educating library partners about Libby and Marketplace. So we are so happy to have all of you joining us today.
Fabulous, thank you Lauren.
Take a look at just a couple of housekeeping items today. First of all there will be some opportunities for you to check your understanding. We're going to be using polls and chat today and we look forward to hearing from you.
In addition you can also earn a certificate of attendance for this webinar
by completing a short post-webinar assessment and we'll be sharing out the link for that assessment at the end of our session.
This is also available for those who are watching on-demand.
Feel free to ask us questions under the Q&A. We have our wonderful staff members Gabby and Sarah and Stephanie all helping today.
I also did want to mention that we are using closed captioning and you can adjust those closed captions under the closed caption button.
Depending upon the size of your screen you might actually find that under the more menu.
I did want to note
now that we're on this slide, I'm seeing a couple of hands being raised if you have any questions we would love to be able to respond to them so I'm going to instruct you to use that Q&A feature
in your Zoom toolbar, that way we can be sure to respond in a timely manner. We do have chat disabled for now.
Thank you.
And
finally we are recording today's session. That means you'll receive a follow up email around this same time tomorrow with a link to the recording, a pdf copy of the presentation, as well as a link to that post-webinar assessment.
I encourage you to you please just watch now, and if you forget something
know that you're going to get the recording
and those help resources tomorrow.
Okay at this time we're getting first use our polling feature to get a pulse on todays group.
Great opportunity for you to test your knowledge, but also this is giving me a good sense for where everyone is on their Libby journey, and it's gonna help Lauren during her demonstration in a little bit so we'll go ahead and pull up that poll.
Why did my polls disappear, hold on one second, there they are.
Ok, you should thing a poll popping up on your screen asking how comfortable you feel with the Libby app. Wow those answers are coming in very, very quickly. Ranging from not comfortable at all, somewhat comfortable, very comfortable.
Thank you so much for your participation.
I'm just gonna let this go for about five more seconds, four,
three,
two, and one. We're going to end that poll and we're gonna share those results just so we can all kind of get a good picture of where we're at today. I see that we've got a little bit of everything, which is wonderful this session's gonna be good for those who are not comfortable yet, those who are somewhat comfortable,
and if you're very comfortable with Libby already. I really think that you're gonna leave with a few takeaways as well.
Thank you.
Okay in today's session
we are going to introduce you to Libby and we're going to demonstrate how you can help your users sign in,
browse, and borrow titles.
We're gonna highlight a few of the ways that your users can customize the experience,
which can promote the benefits of digital reading.
Then we're going to review some of the most frequently asked questions coming from your end users.
You'll also learn where to find Libby marketing materials so that you can spread the word, and help resources so that you can feel confident after today's session.
So with Libby,
It takes just a few taps to find, borrow, and enjoy a title.
Users can explore ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, databases and streaming media services, like Kanopy or Indieflix if those are offered by your public library.
During our demo today we'll primarily focus on ebooks and audiobooks.
Libby is available from the app store on your iOS and Android devices.
And it can be accessed from any modern web browser
at libbyapp.com.
Now to download the app, users will go to the Apple App Store, or the Google Play Store, or the Amazon App Store on the respective devices. Now we're not gonna be showing those particular steps as it does differ per device.
Now what about ereaders?
Users in the U.S. can borrow most ebooks through the Libby app and send them to their Amazon Kindle ereaders such as a Kindle Paperwhite.
Users with an Amazon Fire tablet
Can download Libby from the Amazon App Store.
And Kobo users can borrow OverDrive ebooks
directly from their Kobo ereader.
Now for more information we've got several how-to videos outlining these experiences
which we've linked here on this page for your reference.
I think I just went back, sorry,
thought I was jumping ahead a slide.
Okay so before Lauren's demo
I just want to highlight some of the most recent updates to Libby and that is
our one-tap magazines.
Now when a user discovers a magazine in your collection they can open it and start reading with just one tap.
So instead of appearing alongside your ebook and audiobook loans, magazines
now have their own dedicated section of the shelf summary called the Magazine Rack.
Now from the Magazine Rack
users can navigate to your library's Newsstand which is a new view of a user's recently opened issues
and other popular magazine titles in your collection.
Users can subscribe to magazines from of your library via a new convenient Subscribe option from the magazine search results
and from a title details page.
And with that
I pass it off you Lauren.
Thank you, Lisa.
ADoesn't Lisa have just such a soothing voice? I was so calm listening to the introduction there. Okay so at this time I'm going to share my screen I'm going to be using a web browser today to walk through the Libby experience.
So like we learned you can visit Libby at libbyapp.com and I have modified the screen so it looks a little bit more of a tablet, which is an experience you will probably be most familiar with. And I am gonna turn off my video during the demonstration.
Okay so the first time a user downloads the app they're going to see this screen.
Libby's going to ask if you have a library card. We're going to say yes.
Next we sign in
or
we search for our library.
Libby can guess our library for us using geolocation,
or we can do a manual search for our library.
So these bottom two options are what your first time users are going to do.
Is a user is signing into Libby for the second or third time, maybe they have three devices, a phone, a tablet, and a Kindle.
That second or third time they can simply copy their library cards across devices and I highly recommend this option because it will sync all of their data.
But we are pretending that I am a first time user downloading Libby so I'll just go ahead and manually search for my library today.
We can look by name, city, or zip code.
And then we can select our library.
The last step to signing in is actually signing in with your library card number. Or if you're with an academic or professional library it might be another credential.
So I'm gonna go ahead and put in my card number and PIN.
PINs
are required for some libraries.
And then we are going to sign in.
And
you can see that it took us
two minutes max to sign into Libby for the first time, so it's a very seamless experience for first-time users.
From here I can see the total number of loans and holds that my library allows.
And this is unique to each library.
By tapping next I'm now in my digital collection.
So to level set I just want to make sure we can navigate the Libby app and navigation is going to be done in the bottom footer.
So these icons will allow us to browse throughout the app.
First off we have the Search icon where you can search your collection. Great if you have something particular in mind.
Next is the Library icon where you can browse through your library's digital collection, similar to walking through your library.
In the center you have your Main Menu where you have access to notifications,
you can manage your libraries, or get help and support.
After that you see your Shelf.
This is where you can see all of those titles you've borrowed or placed on hold.
Finally you'll see your Timeline. This is a reading history of all of your activity within the app.
And
Before we move on I also out to mention that Libby is available in fourteen different languages.
So let's say you have a user who is a native Chinese speaker.
They open up the Libby app on their phone which is all in Chinese.
The Libby app will appear in Chinese as well.
However things like the books themselves will be in whatever language it was purchased in.
Okay so now that we are oriented
let's look for a book.
Now since a lot of you are somewhat familiar I'm gonna share a lot of tips and tricks along the way.
Now at any time I could easily tap on a book,
borrow, or place a hold,
and then read it instantly.
However I'm gonna dive a little bit deeper and show you some more features.
So if we were searching for a particular title I can tap on the search icon.
And I can look for a title, author, or series.
If I am a member of more than one library collection
I can add that into Libby, which I've done ahead of time.
And this is one location where I can search
between either library. So right now I'm searching at Cuyahoga County Library.
With one tap I can now search within Belle Isle Public Library.
And users can also explore with filters. So we have some preset filters here if they quickly want to explore your magazines,
audiobooks,
and your library might even have a skip the line collection.
That's a list of special copies of popular titles that have been set aside by your library so your users
get them a little bit faster.
Ok, so let's go ahead and look for an author.
Looking for a children's author right now Jeff Kinney.
When I complete a search here I see twelve results.
I can further filter the list
and right away we can see if a title is available to borrow, if not it will say place hold.
Let's go ahead and apply a filter.
Maybe I only want to see titles that are available right now. A lot of users want a borrow they can,
a book they can borrow instantly.
So I'm going to tap apply now
and show those titles.
So the applied filtered now appears in purple.
And this is a one-time filter.
What if I always want to filter by titles that are available right now?
We can tap on this filter
and pin it.
So pinning is really helpful
for applying any filter that you want consistently.
Okay and then from here I could find a book I like and borrow.
But what if you're searching for a book and your library doesn't own a copy of it?
So let me show you what that would look like. I'm going to search for the book
If Silvie Had Nine Lives.
In this case Libby has automatically applied a deep search
and they found that this title is available in the larger OverDrive collection but my particular library does not own it yet.
So I do have an option to add a Notify Me tag.
This will notify the library that I'm interested in the title
but it does not guarantee that it will be added.
And then, if you do add the title your users will get a notification, acknowledging that any of their added libraries have added it to the collection.
So as a recap here,
on the search results,
on the search page, excuse me, in Libby
users can complete a quick search.
You can switch between libraries.
And you can explore with filters.
Next let's look at the Library tab.
So once again this is where you can browse the collection. Maybe you don't know what you're looking for but you have an idea.
So right across the top you're going to see those filters again.
And take note that that pinned
Available now filter that we set did carry across from the Search tab to the Library tab.
Now if we scroll down you're going to see collections that have been curated by your library.
You may have Catalog Guides, these are collections of books that your library pulled together for specific audiences, really popular to have this for kids or teens.
As a note
in order for these guides to appear at your library you must have at least four available for it to appear on the library home screen.
And a little note of this past year we did make some updates to guides, so these now use larger cover images, they are arranged side by side, so it's gonna be a lot easier to see.
Returning back to that Library tab.
Going to scroll down and here we see our Extras.
Some libraries offer extra learning or entertainment resources that Lisa had mentioned earlier.
If your library offers any of these you will see them here.
And then scrolling down you'll continue to see fantastic lists
of books.
So let's go ahead and
dive into one.
And before I do, I thought this would be a nice time to take a pause and do a knowledge check.
So we're going to do this in the form of a poll.
And Lisa will pull that up for us in just a moment.
So this knowledge check is:
How can you search for titles on the search and library screens in Libby?
Go ahead and select all that apply.
Fantastic.
We have a really nice group joining us today live too, you we have over eighty staff joining us, so thank you all for being here and many will be watching this on-demand.
We are at sixty percent I'll give you just another moment.
How can you search for titles on
the Search and Library tabs in Libby?
And we'll close this poll in five,
four,
three,
Two, and one.
And share those results.
So all of these depending on what's available in your library's collection are ways that your users can browse titles. Excellent!
Thank you all for your participation.
Let's dive back into the demo.
We've taken the time to
search and browse titles, let's go ahead and borrow one.
So I'm interested in Happy Place by Emily Henry.
I can tap on the jacket cover to go to the title details page.
And we have a fun little treat for us at the top here, this is a shelf talker, so this is one of those advanced
features in Libby. So library staff can actually add shelf talkers to specific books.
And this is managed on the back-end in OverDrive Marketplace so you need to have the proper
credentials to get into that.
This is a really fun opportunity for libraries to share extra information about titles.
Here I gave a quote.
You can do staff picks, title trivia, and you can be really creative like this. So I wanted to highlight that.
Next if you scroll down you'll see a description of the book,
Starred reviews,
If the title is available in another lending model,
Excuse me, another format like ebook or audiobook.
And then additional title details.
Including the total number of copies that your library has available. And if the book is available in the Kindle format for U.S. libraries.
Scrolling to the top
Your users can tag titles.
So if you are somewhat or very familiar with Libby, I'm sure you've tagged before.
In the past we just had a wish list. So with tags you can make a wish list, to be read list, favorites list.
You can really be creative with how you tag titles.
You can have as many tags as you would like.
So maybe I want to create a tag here.
Create new tag
Share with friends.
Shorten at a little bit.
Share with friend
You know what I mean! And then I'll go ahead and create.
So tags are super fun and very popular with a lot of users.
Okay and then when we're ready we can go ahead and borrow.
On this borrowing screen you can see the loan period. Right now I get this book for twenty one days. But this can be customized.
By tapping on twenty one days, your users can adjust the loan period.
Now this may vary. Libraries can offer between seven, fourteen, or twenty one days, so you want to hop to Libby and see what options your library offers.
I'll keep that at twenty one
And then borrow.
When I open up the book.
Here I can simply tap
In the title
To dismiss
That menu bar and then tap on the right hand side of the page to turn.
Lots of hyperlink in here too so when I get to the table of contents
I can
Quickly jump to a chapter.
Okay so that the though it'd be fun if we did a little bit of chat. So if you don't mind, Gabby, if you could open up chat for everyone.
Instead of just hearing me talk and talk, I would love for you to take a minute and type in some of the features you see available in Libby's ebook reader.
So on the screen what features are you seeing? What are you familiar with?
And then we'll go from there.
Perfect so chat is now open.
Feel free to type in any of those features you see available
In Libby's ebook reader.
Wonderful I see lot's coming in.
So Anna noticed
Bookmarking, you can bookmark pages.
Libby does also save your page for you by
Default.
When we go into the text size here you can adjust
The size of the font.
You can highlight! Mmhm exactly. Highlight in take notes in Libby.
We do have a quick table of contents section.
Brianne was really good about mentioning some features that will be available in
The audiobook. Fast forwarding and rewinding.
Change the font size.
Yes yes yes the different background colors.
So let me show you a few of these things that were mentioned.
If I were to tap on a specific word maybe financial here.
I can pull up a definition I'm not sure if anyone had mentioned that one yet.
That's one of my favorite features.
We can highlight
Words and paragraphs.
And then if you tap on a highlighted section
You can attach a note as well.
Next at the top, a lot of people were talking about
These appearance settings.
So you can increase the font size.
We do have accessibility sizes.
Which I've been at the airport before and I've
Seen people, you know, reading their ereaders with very large font. So this can be very helpful for anyone with a sight
Need.
Scrolling down you can adjust the background lighting.
And then finally we do have a variety of fonts available including open dyslexic.
Which can help users who experience dyslexia.
And then if I tap in the center and bring up that bottom timeline again,
It'll take just a moment for that to load.
We notice that you can jump between the table of contents,
You can see what page you're on, and you can actually tap this to see how far you are throughout the title.
You can thumb through the pages that kind of looks like a piano.
And then let's say, "Oh my gosh, I accidentally swipe my phone and
I forgot what page I was on!"
That can happen with tech devices.
Just tap that back button in the lower left hand corner of the screen. That'll take you back to your last page.
This thumb print icon is also going to show you all of your recent places. So you can easily see which page you are last on.
Awesome!
Okay super fun thank you all for participating there.
So now that we've explored in ebook
I'm going to get out of this.
When you are done for the day you can tap back in the top left corner.
And we see this Now Reading bar at the bottom.
This will allow users to quickly tap into the last book that they were enjoying.
But if this is in your way you can always dismiss it by tapping the x.
Okay so now that we've searched and browsed titles we are going to hop over the menu and we're going to explore our shelf.
So the shelf is where you can see all of your loans holds and tags
We start off on a shelf summary page. A highlight of what you have going on.
Here we can see my recent loans,
Some books I've been reading recently,
And then that magazine rack that Lisa had mentioned.
Scrolling to the top I can directly view my loans, all the titles I currently have loaned out.
And I want to point out a few things here.
First off you're going to see an icon.
Since I'm in my browser today I'm seeing a cloud icon and this is explaining the download status.
So right now I am streaming the book.
If you downloaded the title it would explain that it was downloaded and you can now read offline.
And that would look like a little library card icon instead.
And then here you can jump back into the book that you were reading.
You can manage the loan and see the due date.
If I manage the loan you get a lot of detailed information
Including the exact time and date that the book is due.
As a reminder titles automatically return in Libby so you never have to worry about late fees or due dates.
If you finish the title early it is nice to manually
Return early if others are waiting in line.
You also have a reading journey. By clicking into this
Here you can see all of your notes and highlights that you took previously in a book. And you have opportunities to export them and save them if you want to hold onto those.
Returning back to the shelf summary page
We can now view our holds.
So if you've placed a title on hold it will live here.
Once again you can manage that hold.
A few options that are different.
Is the option to suspend or cancel your hold.
So let's say this book is available for you in three days but, ugh!
In three weeks I'm sorry.
But maybe three weeks you are out of town and you won't have time to read.
You can be proactive and suspend that hold may be push it to five weeks.
That way you keep your place in line
But it's just gonna give that book
To the next person.
Something else to be aware of with holds.
When a hold becomes available a user will receive a notification in the Libby app letting them know the title is available.
At that time the user can
Read the book,
They can
Delay it if they're not ready, or they can cancel the hold.
Okay back on that shelf summary page, we can also view our tags.
So all of those tags that we saw earlier. Our share with friends tag that I created.
I can go into here, view those books,
I can
Share this with friends, I can delete this tag. So they are very customizable.
Libby's also pretty smart. So Libby has some smart tags as well. So smart tags have an action attached to it.
So by default we have a borrowed and a sampled tag. These are automatically can tag books that you borrow or sample. So pretty cool.
These are good for those advanced users, those power users. We have a lot of great videos and help articles about these
Smart tags as well.
Okay
So now that you are hopefully feeling more confident with your shelf
I think it'd be a good opportunity for us to explore an audiobook. Cause we did take a look at an ebook already.
When I was in my holds earlier I did have an audiobook on hold.
Let's go ahead and play a sample of that so we can explore these features.
And why don't we do the same thing, if you don't mind. We will open up chat.
Thank you Gabby.
And let's share some of the different features you see available in Libby's audiobook player.
Or can be the same, doesn't matter. What are some of the features that you see in the audiobook player here.
Yes
You can go back and forth in fifteen second increments.
And of course you see that play button front and center.
Yes you can change the speed.
So here's our speedometer.
Where we can change the speed of the narrator.
You can make it slower than the default or faster.
Okay what else do we have in here?
A timer, yes. So we have a sleep timer with the crescent moon.
This will allow you to pause the audiobook after a certain amount of time.
And my favorite is the ability to pause at the end of a chapter.
Fantastic, okay what else?
Sleep mode, perfect. Bookmarks. So you can bookmark in an audiobook
Just as you could in an ebook.
Do you think you could make notes
In an audiobook? Let me know.
Yes, Brianne is correct.
If you were to make a bookmark
And then tap it again, you can attach a note. Just as you could in an ebook.
Excellent
And then across the top here you are going to see your timeline.
Okay so fun I love
Engaging with everyone.
So we'll go ahead and close chat and continue on with our demonstration.
So yeah those are all the features of an audiobook. I guess one more thing is even if you tap once in the center
You will get a description here.
So that's kind of fun to see at times.
Okay once again when we were finished, just tap back in the top left.
You have your Now Reading bar.
One more place where you can pause and play, so that is very convenient.
Ok just a few more things to show in our demo.
Next to our shelf you have your activity timeline.
So this is broken down by month.
You can see what you've borrowed, returned, renewed. Really helpful, especially if you maybe have a user and says,
"Where did my book go? I swear I had it in here yesterday."
You can both take a look at your time line and say, "Oh it was returned yesterday, that's why you don't see it anymore."
A cool tip.
If you go into the filter for the timeline you'll get a graph that's going to show your activity over time.
So this can be fun for some of those power users as well.
And then let's take a look at actions.
If you want to export this data,
Maybe you want a list of all the books you've read
And you want to share it with your friends, you can export that.
You can even export this data and then later import it into Good Reads
If you enjoy tracking your books there.
Or let's say you are someone who doesn't want [audio error]
I've gone through everything in Libby. The last I want to highlight is our menu.
And I apologize if I froze for a second there.
Okay so at the top you're going to see any notifications. You can swipe through those.
Notifications will let you know when a title is
Due, when a hold is available, and more.
Underneath, you can manage your libraries.
We all signed into Cuyahoga County together today.
But ahead of time I added Belle Isle. So you can add as many libraries as you have active cards for.
You can also manage your library cards.
Let's say you are working with the patron who has a tablet
And they share it at home with their entire family. There's five
People in the household and
They all want their library card in Libby.
You can have all of them at their card
And you can even rename the cards. So instead of seeing the barcode you have the individual's first name or nickname. So it's easier to determine whose card you're borrowing a book from.
Going back
Maybe the most important for you as a staff member is this help and support section.
So Libby is fantastic in that we offer direct user support through the Libby app.
If the user has a question they can go to get some help.
Right off the top we have the most common solutions available.
Then a user can type in a question. So maybe I want to know how to return
A title.
I can find a quick article on returning books.
If that's not enough, I can read the entire help article on returning books.
And if that's not enough, users can ask our support team.
By clicking on this
They can ask us a problem, a question, or an idea.
So maybe your user is encountering a problem with the Libby app.
Maybe they encounter this later in the evening or on the weekend or over a holiday when the library is closed. They can contact OverDrive directly.
They'll put in their question.
Maybe like, "I had an error when I was opening up this book. Can you please help me?"
And we're going to ask them to be asked specific as possible. So what book was it? What device are you using? The faster they input all of that information, the faster we can get an accurate response for them.
When we go to the next page it will ask for their email address and that's how communication will continue moving forward.
Our staff of support specialists were really hard.
And they work to reply within twenty four hours.
And they are located at our headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio.
So returning back to that menu home page
The last thing here I want a highlight is settings.
So this is one place where your users can further customize the Libby app.
Adjusting features to assist with accessibility.
Choosing your reading preference Kindle or Libby.
Managing your notifications.
Even customizing this navigation bar at the bottom.
For example you can turn on labeled icons.
So underneath each icon it says search,
Library, menu.
That can be helpful for a lot of users.
Okay
So that is our demo.
With that let's go ahead and jump back into the powerpoint and do a bit of a recap, because I did share a lot of information.
So hopefully it was not overwhelming and hopefully you learned a few tips and tricks along the way.
Alright
So there are a lot of different ways to customize Libby as you saw.
And I wanted to highlight ten of them.
First you can pin sorts and filters.
Next you can tag titles to save them for later.
Third, users can sync their wish list from your OverDrive website to Libby.
Fourth, users can customize their reading and listening settings. Which you all did a great job at noticing.
Next users can export their bookmarks, notes, and highlights.
If you remember that was found under the reading journey.
Also users can browse the app in one of fourteen languages.
And that is based on the language of their device.
Or that can be adjusted under Libby settings.
Users can get notified when loans are about to expire,
When holds are ready, and more.
Users can add multiple libraries.
From the first days I worked at OverDrive, I was amazed at how many people had such a vast number of libraries and library cards, so that is very popular.
Library staff can add those shelf talkers to really personalize the experience for their community.
Once again,
Adding those shelf talkers is handled on the back end in OverDrive Marketplace.
And then lastly users in the us can send books to their Kindle ereader like a Kindle Paperwhite.
Okay so now let's talk about some
FAQs, end user questions.
So to best support your end users it's good to at least know what the most common questions we get at OverDrive is.
So you can answer them if you're working at the desk or in a public facing role.
First
If a user experiences an error when they are signing into the app,
They will need to contact your library directly as it is the library who manages library card information and status.
For example, you would be able to let user know if their card had blocks,
Fines, or if their card was expired.
Second, users often ask how they can add multiple libraries or cards into the Libby app.
So we covered most of this in the demo,
But it's always a good practice to try it out yourself and get familiar with the process.
Third, users often ask which of their titles are downloaded for offline use.
Here's a great visual for us now.
Once again this is found on their shelf.
If the user sees a cloud icon they know that the title is being streamed.
If they see a check mark icon, they know that the title has been downloaded to their device.
Fourth,
If a user has an idea for a feature they can submit it under the Libby main menu
By going to get some help,
And then there is going to be the most common solutions.
Included in there is where they can submit an idea for a feature. So we love to get feedback from library staff as well as end users to see what they would like to see in Libby.
So all of these solutions and more are found on Libby help.
That can be accessed at any time.
And that's just help.libbyapp.com.
Okay
So next, I want to talk just for a minute about promotion!
Marketing in promotion is fun but it really is an important step to making sure your community is aware of your digital collection. A lot of people still don't realize that
Ebooks and audiobooks are offered for free from their public library. So it's good to spread the word.
Some ways you can do this
Print out flyers
Bookmarks and distribute them throughout your library or the community.
We do have a plethora of free resources available for you on OverDrive's resource center.
These are updated on a monthly cadence I believe. They are beautiful so I highly recommend you to check out our resource center and
Take advantage of those offerings.
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Sorry
Was my internet being weird?
It was
Working from home
Thank you Lisa, I hope it wasn't bad for too long.
It wasn't. You're ok.
Um you can always reach out to local media with a press release. We do have a press release template draft
That you can use.
Libby Showcase, this is a great interactive discovery kiosk software
That you can put for free on any device that you own in your library.
This can be on something as small an iPad Mini all the way up to a large touch screen tv.
In Libby showcase, users can search and sample titles. And this helps to give your digital collection of physical presence in your library.
We have our Libby Life blog which has a regular lose of book recommendation,
Reading trends, insights from favorite authors and more. There's Libby swag.
A lot of really fun content there. I both have a Libby shirts on today
Lisa has a Libby pen I saw earlier.
So I mean it's just fun. But think about it you can rep it. But you can also order this to have in some giveaway or for raffles at your library.
I think, yeah, there's still going to be a few more Getting Started with Libby Patron webinars for any of your patrons who would like help getting started.
I mean we've got fun challenges that your users can participate in like the diverse reads reading challenge.
So a lot of ideas here just to get you started. But I know your library is probably really creative at how you reach out to your community as well.
Oh my gosh Lisa I just realized
I was going to have you do that slide.
That's alright, you are on a roll so I just let you go. I was on a roll. Let me pass it over to you now, thank you!
Thank you Lauren.
There was that Libby Life blog, sorry about that.
Yay I'm excited she finally passed it off to me so I can do this part. I love this.
As a learner it's important for you
To
Take all you've learned and apply it on the job.
So for that reason we're going to do a quick reflection exercise.
And I would just like you to take one minute
To look back
And reflect upon a takeaway from today's session.
Reflect,
And then when you're ready
Go ahead and share your answer in chat.
I'm going to put the timer on for one minute.
Remember that
This is an important to component of learning so grant yourself this time to reflect.
Sorry I accidentally stopped it. Brings the library to users. I just saw someone downloaded it on their phone, fantastic!
Thank you! Those answers were coming in so quickly I was trying to
Keep up with them and it just kind of got lost.
Let me take a second to highlight.
Pinning sorts and filters, tagging titles.
Changing the speed of the reader.
Being able to highlight.
So many ways to customize Libby! I love seeing this enthusiasm here.
Saving your notes, reviewing your
Information.
And
Oh I love this, many features that sometimes patrons are not aware of or do not tap into and it's pretty user friendly. Yes! So now that you are aware of those features, you can share with your patrons. Oh I love this!
Thank you
Keep them coming
We'll go ahead and keep moving
But definitely share those ideas
There we go
Let's take a look at some
Next steps for success
That we suggest.
First,
Download the app if you haven't already. Play around with it, get comfortable with it's features, I was happy to see some of the chat responses coming in that you took this
Opportunity to download Libby for yourself.
Next introduce Libby, the library reading app to your end users.
Print and distribute Libby marketing materials that are found on OverDrive's resource center. You know it's important to let your users know that you offer this service because many people I should say, you know, they still no idea that libraries offer digital books. So definitely tak an opportunity to
Spread the Libby love.
And we have
Lots of resources to help you answer
Those frequently asked questions and to get support so you're not having to do all of this on your own. we have
The Libby app page so you can direct users to overdrive.com/apps/Libby
overdrive.com/apps/Libby to download Libby.
And it's gonna be linked there on that page for you don't have to remember that long url.
Remember that you can always go to OverDrive help and get directed to the right place.
The resource center.
If you haven't explored OverDrive's resource center,
And I saw that some of you are loving the marketing materials so that let we know that you have.
But if you havn't,
Highly encourage and recommend that you visit resources.overdrive.com because you're going to find that marketing and outreach materials, you are going to find staff training, lists for collection development, all kinds of good things!
Go there, bookmark it, and return often.
We also
You get a sneak peek of, we have that OverDrive shop.
We encourage you to celebrate your love of reading with OverDrive shop. And it's really, I really like this because one hundred percent of the profits from the sales
Are donated to the America Library Association Literacy Clearinghouse.
Cute stuff for a good cause.
I don't you to forget that we've got some fantastic webinars coming up for library staff!
First, engage your readers with one-tap digital magazines. So this is going to be everything magazines on November 1st.
So I encourage you to register for that.
And while your on the resource center registering for that
Why not sign up for How to Train your Community on Libby. That's going to be on November 16th.
Alrighty. Ready to earn your certificate for today's webinar?
I'm going to have you open the link that Gabby is going to chat out for us to take our post-webinar assessment.
Once you complete the assessment
Then you'll earn a certificate of attendance that you can customize with your name and the date.
Little tip
Open the certificate from your downloads folder. That way when you put your name on it
It will be sure to safe.
Thank you for sending that out Gabby.
Okay we are almost at the end of our time together.
But as a reminder
You are going to receive that email from Zoom tomorrow. It's going to contain a link to the recorded session,
Pdf of the presentation, and a link to that assessment if you don't have time to get to it today.
And with one minute left, we are going to end the audio and video portion. We're gonna all stay on the line though in case anything comes to mind so that we can answer in the Q&A for you.
But if you've got all your questions answered then you are all set to go and I wish everyone a great day and happy reading! Bye