Overdrive and iOS 7

WV DELI, WV-READS, and Listen Eastern West Virginia users, please take note of the following message from Overdrive re: iOS7 upgrade and possible issues.

  

Apple released iOS 7 yesterday and many of your Apple users may have upgraded their device(s) or will be upgrading in the near future.

When an existing OverDrive Media Console (OMC) user upgrades to iOS 7, the app will fail when trying to open a DRM-protected eBook. New or first time users of OMC are unaffected by this issue.

We are resolving the issue but in the meantime, here are immediate remedies for users:

1) Re-authenticate the app with their existing or a new Adobe ID. Refer to the iOS section of this Help article for assistance. (Recommended)  

2) Uninstall and re-install OMC which will also require the user to re-authorize with Adobe. IMPORTANT NOTE: A re-install will clear a user's bookshelf, history, and app settings.

Audiobook users won't notice that anything is different unless they attempt to download parts of audiobooks they already downloaded to OMC before upgrading to iOS 7. A user will receive an error message informing them to download the title again. 

Library Update Available to View

The newest episode of Library Update is up on YouTube. This is part one of Episode 20, Digital Literacy. Make sure to catch parts 2 and 3 of the episode as well.

And keep an eye out for Episode 21, Customer Service & Conflict Resolution, which will be available to view soon.

The West Virginia Library Commission is committed to promoting, assisting, and supporting high quality library services and information resources to all West Virginia residents. This includes getting relevant information out to library directors, their staff, and patrons through various formats. Currently the Library Commission uses its website, Facebook, Twitter, Blog, e-bulletins and now YouTube to disseminate information. 

WVLC plans on bringing you current programs, topics, and trends. This broad spectrum includes partnerships, training, programming, and service. We want this program to be a useful, entertaining resource for you. If you ever have any questions or comments regarding topics on this show, please do not hesitate to call us at 1-800-642-9021. 

This program is not intended to act as a calendar of events, but as a vehicle of ideology and practical tips. Specific event information can always be found on our website www.librarycommission.wv.gov and at your local libraries.

The video in this post is the first segment of the episode. Check it out, then view parts 2 and 3. Make sure you subscribe to the West Virginia Library Commission YouTube channel so you don't miss the newest episodes!

September is Library Card Sign-Up Month

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Movie Night at the Library--August 29, 2013

 Join State Library Services for the presentation of Koran by Heart.  This documentary follows three 10-year-old children who leave their native countries to participate in the International Holy Koran Competition, the world's oldest and most prestigious Koran reciting contest, in Cairo.  Up against much older students, the youngsters have committed the 600 pages of the Koran to memory and will put their skills to the test before the world's Muslim community.  In the midst of the competitions, the young competitors face uncertain futures at home as they are caught between fundamentalist and moderate versions of Islam.

This event is free and open to the public.

Where: Library Commission State Library Services JD Waggoner Reading Room Culture Center, Building 9

When: 5:30 pm

Maintenance scheduled for OneClickDigital

The OneClickDigital audiobook website will be unavailable for maintenance starting at 6:00 AM EDT on Saturday, August 24, and will run through 8:00 AM EDT on Monday, August 26.

Capitol Reads

August's Capitol Read is Wild Sweet Notes: Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry 1950-1999, edited by Barbara Smith and Kirk Judd.

With insights into Japanese flower gardening and hog butchering, into mother-daughter relations and horse trading, in verse that is wistful or bright or drenched in rural beauty, WIld Sweet Notes surprises and delights...This varied collection of remarkably high poetic quality will enchant readers throughout the English-speaking world.

The editors, longtime aficianados of their state's poetic production and well-established poets in the own right, professed themselves gratified and inspired by the quality they found in an outpouring of submissions. More than one hundred ten living West Virginia poets and some twenty deceased are represented here.

This book will appeal to readers young and old, to students and gardeners, to political activists, to anyone who responds to natural beauty and to truth. Former West Virginia Poet Laureate Irene McKinney has said that poetry is the one form of art that can't "sell out." This book doesn't either.

Capitol Reads

July's Capitol Read is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.

"January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she'd never met, a native of Guernsey, the British island once occupied by the Nazis. He'd come across her name on the flyleaf of a secondhand volume by Charles Lamb. Perhaps she could tell him where he might find more books by this author." "As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, she is drawn into the world of this man and his friends, all members of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a unique book club formed in a unique, spur-of-the-moment way: as an alibi to protect its members from arrest by the Germans." "Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence with the Society's charming, deeply human members, from pig farmers to phrenologists, literature lovers all. Through their letters she learns about their island, their taste in books, and the powerful, transformative impact the recent German occupation has had on their lives. Captivated by their stories, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds there will change her forever." Written with warmth and humor as a series of letters, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Vie Society is a celebration of the written word in all its guises, and of finding connection in the most surprising ways.