Category Archive for "Reading/Authors"

Getting started with eBooks

Posted in: December 17, 2019 by Windsor Public Library Library | No comments

Perhaps you’re the lucky recipient of a new tablet or eReader? Maybe you’re travelling and want to give an audiobook a try for your commute? Reading back through an older series, and discovered that the titles are out of print – but available as eBooks? Whether you’re new to the online library altogether or just haven’t used it for a while, here are some tips to help you get started...

10,000 Dogs and Other Assorted Creatures

Posted in: September 12, 2019 by Windsor Public Library Library | No comments

It takes a special person to be an animal control officer – for more than 30 years! Imagine the stories that person could tell. If you were not able to attend the presentation on September 7 by Carlo Rossi, author of “10,000 Dogs, and Other Assorted Creatures”, he and his creative team of Tim Williamson and Susan Vesala will repeat their talk at the Riverside Branch this Saturday September 21,...

Great Courses now available on Kanopy

Posted in: July 9, 2019 by Windsor Public Library Library | 2 comments

You can now enjoy unlimited streaming of the entire series of The Great Courses through our Kanopy collection, with access to more than 70 new courses! The Great Courses are a series of post secondary level educational videos instructed by professors, subject matter experts, and industry leading professionals. They allow you to access higher education on your own time, and at your own pace. There are courses in a wide...

cloudLink is now active!

Posted in: June 20, 2019 by Windsor Public Library Library | No comments

It has now been about a month since we moved our digital collections over from Overdrive/Libby and Axis 360 into cloudLibrary, and we are happy to report that eBooks & eAudiobook checkouts are at an all time high. We thank you all for your patience through this transition. One of the factors in our decision to move to cloudLibrary was to have access to cloudLink, which allows us to share...

eBooks & eAudiobooks now available through cloudLibrary

Posted in: June 13, 2019 by Windsor Public Library Library | 1 comment

Looking for eBooks & eAudiobooks? You can now find them in the cloudLibrary App! As we announced a little while back, we have begun a partnership with cloudLibrary as our content provider for both eBooks and eAudiobooks. While we were transferring titles from Overdrive/Libby and Axis 360 to cloudLibrary we offered limited access to those two Apps; now that the content has migrated, we have ended access to those two platforms. You...

Facebook Live Q&A with Author Dawn Dumont

Posted in: June 11, 2019 by Windsor Public Library Library | No comments

For the month of June, which is Indigenous History Month, over 300 libraries across Canada are teaming up to read the same book at the same time: Glass Beads, by Dawn Dumont. This is Canada’s first ever #1eReadLivrelCanada campaign, and Windsor Public Library is thrilled to participate. From June 3-30 library customers can borrow the eBook and eAudiobook from WPL’s cloudLibrary collection on demand – no holds or wait lists. You can also borrow...

Read Glass Beads with Canada-Wide eBook Club

Posted in: June 4, 2019 by Windsor Public Library Library | No comments

This Indigenous History Month, from June 3 to 30th, readers all across Canada are invited to read Glass Beads by Dawn Dumont as part of the One eRead Canada campaign. Along with other participating libraries across Canada, Windsor Public Library will make the eBook and eAudiobook editions of Glass Beads available with no holds or waitlists all month long. You can download Glass Beads from cloudLibrary or Hoopla. About the Book...

Overdrive/Libby & Axis 360 Checkouts and Holds limited

Posted in: May 17, 2019 by Windsor Public Library Library | 12 comments

In preparation for our move over to the cloudLibrary platform for eBooks & eAudiobooks, checkouts and holds for Overdrive/Libby and Axis 360 are currently limited to one of each from now until May 23, at which point borrowing will be turned off and you will have one week to finish reading any materials you have checked out. All access to Overdrive & Axis 360 will be discontinued on May 30th....

WPL Moving to CloudLibrary: CEO Kitty Pope Explains

Posted in: May 13, 2019 by Chris W. | No comments

On May 30, Windsor Public Library begins its partnership with cloudLibrary as our content provider for both eBooks and eAudiobooks. This is an exciting move for us, as it allows us to leverage far greater title selection through the exclusive ‘cloudLinking’ system. Our involvement in cloudLinking offers seamless access to a wider selection of available eBooks and eAudiobooks for you to borrow and enjoy. The linked system has now grown...

Read your favourite magazines online

Posted in: December 6, 2018 by Windsor Public Library Library | No comments

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…for reading your favourite magazines online. With the busy hustle and bustle of the holiday season, some of us take a step back from the hottest can’t-put-them-down bestsellers and instead take in convenient little nuggets of information in the form magazine articles and the super pretty pictures that accompany them. I am a dedicated magazine reader so I definitely try to check in...