At the Moorpark Library, Heather Cousin
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At the Moorpark Library, Heather Cousin
At the Moorpark Library Heather Cousin lead reference librarian also said the OverDrive system was too expensive.
At Blanchard Library in Santa Paula head librarian Daniel Robles said the library which is part of a special voting district belongs to the Black Gold Cooperative Library System for Central California Coastal Communities OverDrive service comes through Black Gold and is an expensive addition With a prorated membership share of money they buy databases for libraries to have This year theyve had to curtail quite a few databases because people liked OverDrive. It is too important to dismiss Robles said We gave up two genealogy websites that were really very good but theyre too expensive
The Ventura County Library system which includes Ventura Ojai Fillmore Simi Valley and Piru libraries is a member of the Southern California Library Cooperative which also includes Oxnard and Thousand Oaks libraries.
Ventura County Library has had downloadable e-books for more than a year. Over that time many of our customers have asked about Kindle-friendly downloadssaid Dale Redfield,Water Pumps News, acting deputy director.With the new Amazon service Redfield said the librarys OverDrive can offer e-books for the Kindle Were very gratified and excited that in the first week we offered Kindle-capable downloads in late September checkouts were activated by our Ventura County community of library users he said. With this immediate success we anticipate our circulation of e-books to increase considerably
The Thousand Oaks Library system subscribes to OverDrive and offers e-book checkouts According to research librarian Mohsen Rahnamaie the e-books service becomes more and more popular every dayThe Westlake Village Library which is part of the Los Angeles County public library system also offers e-books through OverDrive.
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