 Hi everybody, I am Anna Lytton, I'm the assistant instructor at the Robbins Library and I am going to be talking today about some tips tricks that people might not know about using Libby, which is one of the tools that we use at the library to access digital library resources, which is everybody's best way of getting library resources right now. So we're gonna be going a little bit into Libby, a little bit about, into looking at how to access items from our shared resources within the state of Massachusetts, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. So I'm excited to do that. Before we get started, just a few words about Libby. Libby is the app, Libby by overdrive is the name of the app and that is the app that is available for overdrive. So sometimes people hear overdrive and they ask if it's something different from Libby. Libby is the most up-to-date app to access overdrive, to access overdrive materials. If you're looking in your app store and it is available, the Libby app is available in the iOS store, it's the Android market, Google Play I think that's called and through that app is available for Windows 10 devices as well. So there's a bunch of different places to get that app and it is a fantastic app for people to have. It is my number one use app. So I personally use it all the time. Hope you are able to do that as well. As we're going through today's content, I just wanna remind people feel free to ask questions in the comments. I'm gonna see those and I'll probably respond to those towards the end of the session. And all right, let's get started. So I'm using today, I'm using overdrive on this ancient iPad. Thank you to my husband for lending me his very ancient iPad. The number, we use this device for my 10 year old, who is a huge, huge Libby fan and he mostly listens. He listens to a lot of audiobooks. So when you are in your Libby app, I know it's really hard to see on your screen. Oops, I'm into the wrong part here. Hold on one second. Let me just get back to my minute man account. Okay, fantastic. In my Libby app, once I'm here, we have two separate sections really for using Libby. Someone's asked me to slow down. I certainly will do that. So sorry, thank you so much for that comment. Once you have downloaded the Libby app, if you've never played with it before and I think I mentioned, for those of you who are just joining now, we recorded a FaceTime Live on getting started with Libby, installing Libby onto your device and syncing Libby to your library card, excuse me. We recorded that two weeks ago. You can find that at the ACMI page. So if you have never used Libby, take a look, take a look for that video and we'll probably rerun that in the next day or two. So once you have Libby, we have two separate parts to our Libby app. We have our library where we're gonna look for our titles and we have our shelf where we keep all of our different titles. We're gonna be focusing today on using our library to kind of expand what we are already seeing and add some additional information there. So it's gonna be the focus of what we're gonna be doing today. We're gonna be talking about adding libraries. I'm gonna save some time for and ask me anything about Libby as we are wrapping this up. So we'll have plenty of time to answer all of those questions. Okay, I am here in Libby right now, my 10-year-old and I'm gonna come over here to my shelf. I can see that right now my 10-year-old is listening to a book called Spy School by Stuart Gibbs. I see he's 70% done with that title and he's gonna be needing the next book in that series soon. I also see that he has been on a Gordon Corman kick. So we are gonna be adding some of the Gordon Corman books for him as well. For those of you who are new to Libby, when we switch over to our library tab, which is on the bottom left of our screen, I'm gonna click over to my library. I've got a search button in the top. So I can search for, I'm gonna search for Gordon Corman for my Abbot 10-year-old listener right now. I'm seeing the list, and it was so hard to see this and the reflections and everything. I'm seeing the list of all the Gordon Corman titles that I have. And when I'm looking through here, I see that a lot of these are checked out. So I can place holds on a bunch of these. So you restart, I would need to place a hold. The unteachables would need to place a hold. Almost all of these titles, I would need to place a hold to get these titles. So I certainly could do that. I could place a hold here and get those Gordon Corman titles as they become available to me. When that happens, you get to notice that that is held in a hold shelf for you. And you do need to actually check that item out directly to you. For those of you who've been using Libby for a while, that function is a little bit newer. For a while, items would check out directly to you and then you would have to download those. You now have to actively check out your Libby titles. Just takes a second. You'll get that email notification, touch check out and you can get that item directly to you. Haven't seen some people are saying hi. Hi, Katie. Thanks for being here with us today. But if I don't see what I'm wanting here, Libby has some viability in Massachusetts. In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, our libraries have joined together to open up Libby titles to patrons, library patrons from across the Commonwealth, which is fantastic. By doing that, that system is called the reciprocal lending agreement. And we here as Minuteman patrons, Arlington patrons, who are members of the Minuteman Library Network are able to check out items from all of the library networks across Massachusetts. This feature rolled out about 16 months ago and it's been huge. It's really given Arlington patrons access to many, many more titles and it is really fantastic. So we're gonna go through using those titles today, using those additional resources. And again, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask them in the comments and we'll try to cover all of those questions at least towards the end of the session. All right, so I am gonna come back to my library page here and look for some additional titles. I see that all of those Gordon Corman titles are currently checked out of Minuteman Libraries and I wanna get a Corman title for that 10 year old. So since I already used that search feature right up there, it's so hard to see this, I'm sorry. Left, right, right up at the top of my screen, I do have that search function, hard to see in these two screens working together, but on your screen, you should see that. In the top right of my screen, I've got a little kind of a, it's like a little kind of person with a hair pulled off the Libby icon is up there on the top right. And when I touch on that, I see for me, I see that I have two different libraries listed. Most of you are probably only gonna see one, the Minuteman Library Network. I see it again, it's so hard to see on my screen. Whoops, to the right, to the left, and I'm gonna tilt it a little bit so people can see that I've got the Minuteman Library Network and the noble North of Boston Library Network listed there. I also have a button that says it can add a library through my page as well. So it's a really, really useful feature that so many people don't know about. Hi, Lynn, I see we have another person here to see us. Thank you so much today. So what I'm gonna do right now to kind of increase my options of getting the Gordon, excuse me, Gordon Corman title for that anxious 10 year old right now is touch on the add a library button down there. And when you do that, I've already done this, so we can see the option here. When you type in Minuteman, right in that field there, and I'm gonna do it here so that we can all kind of go through this process together, Minuteman, excuse me, Libby functionality is pretty much the same on all different devices. So again, as I mentioned before, I'm doing this on an iPad but it works pretty much the same everywhere. So when I type in Minuteman and I click on search, oops, I should try to spell that correctly. If I type in Minuteman and spell it correctly, what's coming up? When I type in Minuteman, I actually see more than the Minuteman library network. I also see the sales library network, the clams, CWMars, Boston Public Library, Old Colony and Merrimack Valley Library Consortium as well as the Noble North of Boston. These are different library networks available here in Massachusetts. And because of our reciprocal lending agreement across our library networks, Minuteman users with your Minuteman library network card are able to access materials from all of these different library networks, which is huge. It really gives us such a larger library of items to see. And one thing patrons should know too is that there's actually many of the items, of course, are the same without these. Everybody has gotten the newest Louise Penny title all of these different libraries. But there's certainly are many instances where the different library networks don't have the same materials. And if you cannot find something in Minuteman, it is certainly worth your while to take a look through some of these other library networks. We can kind of see all these, oops, trying to tip, so you can see all the different library networks. So I wanna see if Boston Public Library has some of those Gordon Corman titles. So I'm gonna touch on Boston Public Library there. Now I've been switched over to the Boston Public Library Libby website. So now I'm looking at resources that, excuse me, I'm just going back, that the BPL has purchased for BPL patrons. And again, because we are sharing access to our Minuteman titles across the network, across the networks, you, Minuteman Library network holders, card holders, have access to these materials as well. So here I am in Boston Public Library. And I'm gonna search for, again, I'm gonna search for Gordon Corman. Oops, what's going on here? I'm gonna click on search for a book and enter Gordon Corman. If you, you might notice that your search, your searches hold. So if you have Gordon Corman entered at your last library, it's still there. So all I had to do was touch on Gordon Corman. And I'm gonna see all the Gordon Corman titles available through the BPL this time. And I see place, hold, place, hold, place, hold. But I do see that I can borrow Flashpoint, which is one of the 39 Clues series. Not interested in that one, but I also see that I can get the fifth book in the, and I could scroll down, down, down. There's a bunch of different items here. Oh, I see that Son of the Mob is available. Son of the Mob was not available in Minuteman Library Network. It was checked out. But Son of the Mob is available in the BPL. It's a pretty funny book. So I think he's needs a funny book right now. We all need a funny book right now. So I'm gonna touch on Borrow. And it's going to ask me because I don't have this, I'm not officially entered as a BPL patron. It's going to ask me to, I wanna add this library, excuse me. And it's gonna ask me to enter my library card number. So essentially what you have to do in order to really make the reciprocal lending library agreements work across all these networks is to kind of create yourself as a user at all these different library networks. It would be super convenient if you were already created as a user. It's a little clunky. You do have to go through this process of adding your card to these different libraries, but it does give you the ability to have a lot more titles available to you. So it's definitely worth your while. So I'm gonna enter my library card number here. Pause for one second while I do that. If we were actually in a cloth, I'd tell you to talk among yourselves, but you're just gonna wait for one second. Okay, so I've entered my library card number. It's gonna ask me to enter my pin. Again, if you're having any trouble with your pin, I think everybody knows by now, you should either call us or email us. That information is available on our webpage and we can reset your pin for you. I happily know mine after all these years, but I entered it incorrectly. I thought I entered my card wrong and it turns out I did. So I'm gonna go through this process one more time. So I'm gonna enter my library card and I'm not gonna talk when I do this. Bear with me for one second. So now I've entered that. I'm gonna come back to my pin. I have a hard time typing on iPads. Okay, great. Oh, I'm still having a little bit of trouble, but we'll go back. What's gonna end up happening then is that when I'm in my libraries and back in my library here, I can just check that item out directly to my shelf. And when I come back to my shelf, you would be able to see if you have an item checked out from one of those other items. The nice thing about your shelf is it keeps all of those items from all of those different libraries available for you right there. Easy to see those, they're all collected in one area. I can see again all those cards that I have. I can add as many of those cards from those different library networks from across Massachusetts as I would like. And then I just need to toggle back and forth. So if I wanna now I've already added Noble, if I wanna see what kind of Gordon Corman titles are available there. Again, hard to see the screen. Got a little weird light here, getting it there. And again, I can see that since I've already entered Gordon Corman, it's there on my search screen. And I can just click on Gordon Corman and I can see what Gordon titles, Gordon Corman titles are now available in the Noble network, the north of Boston Library Network. And I am here and I'm seeing again a bunch of these. Oh, I can borrow on Gifted, which is actually a book that he's been looking for. So I'm just gonna touch on borrow from that one. My card is already there. I've already entered it in this system, which is again Noble. So when I click on borrow, thank you for a second. Don't forget, we can always change here. I forgot to change my time here. I generally check out for 21 days and I forgot to edit my time right underneath the title. Hope everybody can see that. Whoops, hold on. Right under the title of my book, I can see the days. And again, before you touch borrow, you can always change to 7.14 or 21 days just by touching that option that's right underneath the title of the book. So we have a visitor here from Hawaii. Hi, Allison, nice to see you. So we can add all of those items in there. And then just we've really opened up the amount of the sheer number of books that are available to us when we use this option to add titles. So again, those couple steps, so easy to do this. When I'm in my library, all I have to do is touch on, I'm gonna adjust my screen so everybody can see, this little person who lives in the right, top right-hand corner of my screen, touch on her, either toggle back and forth between the different libraries that are there. At any point, I can touch on add a library. And I'm going to add, what am I gonna add right now? I'm gonna add CWMars, clicking on CWMars. That's the Central and Western Massachusetts area libraries. So clicking on there, I'm gonna search for Gordon Corman again. My kid is gonna end up with so many Gordon Corman books because of this. He usually uses audiobooks and I've been checking out whatever I can right now. I'll return them when I'm done. Let's see, here's everything available for Gordon Corman. And again, I can always use my refine button in the top right-hand corner. I wanna see items that are available right now. I'm gonna check, choose on availability. And orange rock, that sounds very much like my 10 year old. Not positive, but I think so. So I'm gonna touch on borrow. In order to borrow this, let's add a library card for CWMars. We already went through this, but we're gonna do it one more time. I'm visiting from another library. That's what I forgot to do at Boston. So I'm visiting from another library from Minuteman. So I'm gonna go through that option. I'm gonna enter my card number, choose next, entering my pin, clicking on sign in. They're contacting Minuteman to make sure I'm an actually a patron. Before I touch on borrow on this title, again, I'm gonna come back to my time period. I'm gonna change this to 21 days. I like to check out books for a little bit longer. I can always return them earlier, but if there's a hold, I wouldn't be able to get it for longer. So I'm gonna choose that for 21 days. And now I'm gonna touch on borrow. Because I've gone through that process of adding my card, saying that I'm a visitor, a guest from another library, and entering Minuteman Library Network, because I then entered my library card number and my pin, once this book downloaded, ups all done, downloaded. People who are new to Libby do often wonder how long it takes to download a book. This book, a reading book, an e-book, downloaded in the time that I finished a sentence, really fast for those. So now when I click onto my libraries, again, on my top right-hand corner, I see that the libraries are entered are CWMR's, Noble, North of Boston Library Exchange, and the Minuteman Library Network. I can toggle easily between any of these to switch and search through their catalogs whenever I want. I'm gonna cancel this one. So I can, I generally, I always start in Minuteman. I have been using overdrive titles from Minuteman Libraries for so many years, and I do always start there, but I can always switch to these different libraries so easily. And again, if I wanted more of those, there are, how many did we talk about? There are eight different library systems that you can search for, and again, all you need to do to see those again once I click on add a library, once I click on Minuteman, and it's already here, I can see all of the different library systems that are there. I see the three that I have my card linked to right now. If I'm gonna link my card to sales, that the sales library network includes the Cape Cod libraries and sales. I'm gonna, again, search for a title. I'm actually gonna do a Louise Penny one this time. I know that Louise Penny has been on some kind of, well, perfect for me at this time. So I'm gonna search for Louise Penny. I'm gonna, again, click on the refine button. I just wanna see what's available today. So I'm gonna click on availability of everything that's available now. I bet nothing is gonna be available, let's say. Oh, no, great. So sales does have some Louise Penny titles available right now. Number four, oh, great. I'm like, oh, I actually have a hold already and still life, number one. But I'm gonna check out the audiobook for number 14, Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind. When I touch on Barrow here, I get, it's gonna lead me through the process. Again, I'm saying I'm visiting from another library and I'm gonna select that I'm visiting from the Minuteman Library Network. It's gonna ask me to enter my library card number. Gonna go through that process one more time. Bear with me here. So I try to remember my library card number. Oh, no, don't worry. Then it's gonna ask me next to enter my password. And I'm going to say, yes, I'm gonna sign in. Great, they're connecting to my library. And I see it's my library card number here. We can all see that I should block that off. I can, ready to borrow it. Many of the library networks that are available to us, default to a 14-day checkout period, sales defaults to a seven-day checkout period. So again, right under the title of my, oops, I'm gonna hold this up, right under the title of the book that I'm checking out. Whoops, I just want back a little bit. Just lost that by touching my iPad on place. Right under the title of the item, I can select seven, 14, or 21 days. I just touch that button again to go back to 21 days for that audio book. Even though I'll probably finish it quicker than that, there's no problem in adding that for a little bit longer. So again, as far as always hard, sorry. Turn it so you can see it. Okay, right under title, Kingdom of the Blind. I see seven days. I'm just gonna touch on that and change that to, excuse me, to I'll say 14 days for that one. And then when I touch on Borrow, does take a few minutes longer. This was the audio, is this the audio book? I can't remember. Takes a couple minutes longer for that to download if it's the audio, but I don't remember if this one was. Once that is downloaded, in addition to downloading, because I added that library, the next time I wanna look for that item, all I have to look for an item from the Sales Library Network, all I have to do is touch on that library network to toggle to that. Give this is taking a little bit longer to download since this is the audio book. Just taking one more second. It looks like it's almost done. Not quite, but again, if I come into my libraries now, touching that button on the, oops, on the right hand side, I now see that my libraries include the Sales Library Network, CWMars, Noble, North of Boston, Minuteman Library Network, and I should probably go through and add BPL. Haven't done that yet, but I will do that again in a second to add that. And again, all I have to do is toggle between those libraries to get that option. So our library card really has, it does give you your Minuteman Library Network card, does give you quite a bit of access to additional libraries. It's a fantastic benefit of having that card, and it really does open up information from all across Massachusetts. I have been at a number of different tutorials, I've been at training, I've been at the Minuteman Library Network. I've been really surprised to learn how little overlap there is between our catalogs, our digital catalogs available through Overdrive. So I definitely encourage you, if you're not finding a title that you're looking for through Libby, our Libby, or our Overdrive catalog at Minuteman, please do go out to some of these other libraries. You might find some of these options. We have a question from a viewer right now, if this tutorial will be available on ACMI, it will. ACMI has been so generous with us in these past few weeks in posting a bunch of our Facebook Live. So our story book, our story times, and our training tutorials are all gonna be available on ACMI. Big thanks to ACMI for really supporting the library and the community of Arlington during this time. I'm happy to take any additional questions right now. So if people do have any questions, please feel free to type them into that comment box right now and we will certainly answer those. I wanna remind people that even though our physical locations are closed, we, speaking on behalf of the whole staff, I truly can say that our mission is to serve the public and we are checking our email constantly. The phone calls, if you call the library, that phone number is being forwarded to our director who is answering those questions herself. If you have any questions, leave them on our Facebook. We're really trying to respond to all the issues that are coming up for our patrons. We want you to be able to access all of our materials. So please do take a moment to try to get in touch. We are so happy to answer any of those questions. I wanna remind people really briefly to close about some of the other ways that you can access digital content through the library. We've been doing a lot to try to add additional digital content available for our community. Since our last open day was March 12th, since then we've added two new sources for digital content, including Hoopla. Hoopla has, it includes e-books, audiobooks, some movies, some TV, a bunch of different sources. One of the nice things about Hoopla is that there's, it's not one user per one item. So if you are checking out an item on Hoopla, everybody can check it out. So your entire book group can read the same book on Hoopla right now. And that's happening through the library book groups, which you can read about on our blog. We are, we have a couple of different library book groups right now that are reading Hoopla titles. The color purple is one. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is another. So all kinds of interesting titles available through there. Great for books, audiobooks, great for audiobooks as well. There's some film, some additional sources there as well. We've just added Acorn TV. If you have any trouble with your Acorn TV access, please look on our blog. We have a big blog post about how to make Acorn work for you. I know I've launched my kids already into my favorite Acorn show, which is Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. They've been enjoying that. And don't forget Canopy, which is another great source for streaming film available through the library. We are gonna continue doing videos on little quick tutorials on how to access library resources, and they will all be on ACMI. And I wanna thank everybody so much for coming today. So thank you so much. See you later. Enjoy using the library and please do continue sending us questions. We really do appreciate it. Thank you so much. Goodbye.