Join us on Friday, December 11 to create literary decor for your Christmas celebration. We’ll have two sessions, 10 am and 2 pm and reservations are required. The library will provide the materials and show you how to create festive decorations from recycled books. This event is free. Please call the Cody Library at 307-527-1880 to reserve your spot.
Gobble! Gobble! Just a reminder, the libraries will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday, November 26-28, 2020. Come see us on Monday and start stocking up on all those great Christmas books and DVDs. We’ve got some great new reads this year and lots of Hallmark Christmas movies to get you in the holiday spirit.
Thank you for all the prizes, funds, volunteer hours, publicity help and kindness. This year, more than ever we appreciate all you do for us. We are so grateful for your support at all 3 Libraries!
Dear Wyoming RBDigital user,
We are sending out this reminder to make sure you know about the discontinuation of the RBDigital service that will be taking place later this summer. Due to a merger with another library media company, the RBDigital service will no longer be available for the Wyoming State Library to license for statewide use after September 30th, 2020. The State Library will migrate audiobook licenses to the cloudLibrary platform later this summer and all new audiobooks are now being purchased exclusively on the cloudLibrary platform. Unfortunately, the magazine service will cease on October 1, 2020 as there is no current method to transition the subscriptions at this time. Please see our RBDigital service update page at https://gowyld.libguides.com/econtent/rb_update for details on how content will be migrated and how patrons will be impacted by this significant change.
GoWYLD Support Team
You checked out more free digital audiobooks, eBooks, movies, music, comics and television shows from the library this year. Total items circulated from July 2019 to June 2020 (fiscal year 2020) exceeded 27,000. A spike in use began in March when the libraries closed to the public.
The libraries have been trending to a more online presence. Digital items don’t need to be processed or shelved. They can’t be overdue or damaged. So, when the pandemic kept people home, users logged into their remote library. See parkcountylibrary.org/research for details.
Wyoming State Library administers RBDigital for more than 100 Wyoming libraries. Park County saw 18,542 audiobooks and magazines checked out, a 28% increase in fiscal year 2020. However, due to a merger with Overdrive, on Oct. 1 RBDigital will be discontinued. Beginning Sept. 16, all purchased content will be migrated to the Cloud Library.
Unfortunately, there is no platform to host the magazines that were available on RBDigital. WSL will investigate alternatives for supporting this service if the budget allows. Park County users read more than 3000 magazines last year.
Cloud Library checkouts totaled 10,990 in fiscal year 2020. This is a 20% increase over four years. Cloud Library is a WSL audiobook and eBook app.
The Park County Library Foundation, which is directly funded by community support, purchased a Hoopla subscription in June 2019. Checkouts began with three per patron per month. In March, 2020 the limit was increased to five.
Hoopla is a pay per view service. For the purpose of budgeting, Hoopla currently has a $1500 per month cap.
Circulation for fiscal year 2020 totaled 7732 audiobooks, eBooks, movies, music, comics and television shows. Audiobooks were consistently the most popular download. Many people took advantage of Hoopla bonus borrows this spring. Bonus borrows offered items which did not count against the monthly allowance.
The total digital circulation for all three libraries was 37,264 items in fiscal year 2020. Circulation of physical material was 282,400 for the same period.
The librarians have long been on a mission to empower users with the knowledge to get the most out of their devices and to help them successfully download the digital content the library offers. Now, we can do it at a safe distance with screen mirroring software called View Share. Ask us for details.
“Let us know if you need assistance setting up or using any of the digital services. We can often walk you through over the phone or are glad to help in person,” Nicholle Gerharter said. Gerharter manages the Cody Library.
