DISCONTINUED: OverDrive Media Console for BlackBerry

BlackBerry was once king of the smartphone world.  For 4 years, it reigned supreme, until their world was eclipsed by the rise of Apple’s iPhone and Google’s subsequent introduction of Android.

In the past year, the OverDrive Media Console app for BlackBerry has experienced a steady decline in downloads. Only .3% of all visitors to digital library websites come from a BlackBerry device.  After much consideration, OverDrive, East Central Regional Library's Digital Library vendor, has decided to remove the app from BlackBerry App World in order to focus development efforts on more widely used platforms such as iOS and Android—both of which have more daily downloads than BlackBerry has monthly.

Effective April 10, 2014, the OverDrive Media Console mobile app for BlackBerry will no longer be available for download to BlackBerry, BlackBerry 10, and Playbook devices.  

BlackBerry users with the app installed prior to April 10, 2014 will be able to continue downloading eBooks and audiobooks via OverDrive Media Console. However, no further development or testing will be dedicated to it.

New BlackBerry users will still be able to download the Kindle app for BlackBerry and download Kindle format eBooks from ECRL's Digital Library.

If you have questions, please let us know.  

Sarah Hawkins, Branch Librarian, Chisago Lakes Area Library

Forthcoming titles - March 2014

Forthcoming titles - click here to search for and place your hold on the ECRL catalog.


ADULT FICTION

Title	Author
Angels Walking	Kingsbury, Karen
Burn	Patterson, James
The Christmas Cat	Carlson, Melody
Dark Blood	Feehan, Christine
The Eye of Heaven	Cussler, Clive
Festive in Death	Robb, J. D.
The Golem of Hollywood	Kellerman, Jonathan
The Lost Key	Coulter, Catherine
Mean Streak	Brown, Sandra
Our First Christmas	Jackson, Lisa
The Perfect Witness	Johansen, Iris
Personal	Child, Lee
The River	Lewis, Beverly
Safe Harbor	Woods, Sherryl
Virtue Falls	Dodd, Christina

LARGE PRINT

Title	Author
Burn	Patterson, James
Field of Prey	Sandford, John
Girl Missing	Gerritsen, Tess
Live To See Tomorrow	Johansen, Iris
Mean Streak	Brown, Sandra
Midnight Crossroad	Harris, Charlaine
Mr. Mercedes	King, Stephen
Personal	Child, Lee
The River	Lewis, Beverly

BOOKS ON CD

Title	Author
Angels Walking	Kingsbury, Karen
Burn	Patterson, James
Cold Cold Heart	Hoag, Tami
Cop Town: A Novel	Slaughter, Karin
Daniel's Desire	Woods, Sherryl
Deserves to Die	Jackson, Lisa
The Eye of Heaven	Cussler, Clive
Fast Track	Garwood, Julie
The Golem of Hollywood	Kellerman, Jonathan
Mean Streak	Brown, Sandra
Personal	Child, Lee
Public Secrets	Roberts, Nora
Sight Unseen	Johansen, Iris
Swan Point	Woods, Sherryl
Virtue Falls	Dodd, Christina

Marcia Ledin, Technical Services Coordinator

Magazines Aren't Just Print Anymore

Libraries are usually known for their books, but magazines are an overlooked part of the collection.   ECRL has magazines in a variety of formats, depending on your needs.   

          The most basic is the old-fashioned paper magazine.  ECRL subscribes to many magazines throughout their 14 branches so if you are looking for a magazine that you don’t see, ask the librarian if it is available at another branch.  You can check out the back issues of any magazines through ECRL and keep it for three weeks.

          The next way to look at magazines is through the ELM database.  The state of Minnesota has subscribed to some costly databases so that everyone with a library card can have access to a huge variety of academic and popular journals and magazines.  Students are sometimes first introduced to this resource through their school library.  To gain access to these, go to the homepage of ECRL and look for the fourth box down.  Click on the ELM databases and then look for EBSCO or Megafile. 

         

If you would like to use your computer, tablet or smart phone to look at magazines, try the new Zinio feature.  Click on the link from the library home page.  You will be asked to make two accounts—one through ECRL and the other through Zinio.  Once you have this on your tablet or computer, you’ll love it.  You can look at many different magazines—ads and all--at your leisure.

Kathy Morrow

Mille Lacs Lake Community Library

Branch Librarian