Downloadable Books

The Southeastern and Southwest Library Service Areas are working on a project to make downloadable audiobooks available to patrons of member libraries. We would like to form a consortium which would use Overdrive to provide content and services. (An example of such a consortium is NEIBORS, a project of NC, NE, and EC LSAs: http://neibors.lib.overdrive.com/ )

Libraries in the consortium would be responsible for a monthly service fee, divided among the participating libraries, as well as money to develop the collection of titles. The more libraries who participate, the lower the monthly cost--and more libraries accessing the collection, which means the consortium would want to invest in as many titles as the libraries are able to afford.

Because the cost to each library will depend on the number of libraries participating, we would like to assess the number of libraries who would be interested in participating in the consortium, and the level at which they would be able to contribute monthly. Below is a link to an online survey that we ask you to complete if you are at all interested in participating. Your responses do not bind you, but please answer as realistically as possible so we can make plans for the project.

Survey:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=dnWLLj6niTa_2fD4TCPXqMBQ_3d_3d