As you know, we've contracted with Overdrive, to provide free eBook content to our library customers. Currently we have 1725 eBooks titles in our collection including adult, children and teen fiction and nonfiction. We'll be adding more titles on a monthly basis. When we purchase titles, we own them, so our collection will be ever-growing. ACL Lending Policies
I want to share our lending policies for eBooks available through Overdrive. Here are the main points. Please comment if you’d like other questions answered.
· ACL and COH library card holders may check out Overdrive eBooks. Due to subscription agreements, other library system library barcodes will not be recognized.
o A PIN is also required for checkout.
· Customers are allowed to have 4 items checked out at a time.
· At the time of check out, customers may choose to keep a title for 7 days or 14 days.
· Customers may have up to 6 items in their cart at any time.
· Customers are allowed to have 4 items on request at a time.
o An email address is required to place a request. Notification that a request is available for check out is sent to this email address.
o After notification, available requested items are held for 3 days. After that time, the request moves to the next person on the hold list.
· It is possible to return items early.
· Customers must pay their fines down below $10, in order to be able to check out eBooks. (This matches our print fine policy).
· eBooks cannot be renewed, but as soon as the lending period expires, if no one else has requested the title, it may be checked out again.
