Washington County Library Now Offers eBooks from All 5 Major Publishers

Hachette titles are being added to the Washington County Library’s digital collection.

Want to check out ebooks from David Baldacci, Anita Shreve, Michael Connelly, Stephenie Meyer and James Patterson? Now you can. Digital books under the Hachette publishing house were previously unavailable through Washington County Library, said Chad Lubbers, manager of the R.H. Stafford Branch in Woodbury. “That’s been a big gap for us over the past couple of years,” he said. But Hachette has started working with libraries, and local branches now carry digital titles from all five major book publishers, Lubbers said. The others are Random House, Macmillan, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster. Titles from Baldacci and Patterson, among others, will continue to show up in the Washington County Library’s e-catalogue in the coming weeks. “Good …

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Letter to the Editor

Library Chat: It's eThis and eThat in Library Land!

The personal service offered at the library becomes even more important in the digital age.

With the ringing in of the new year, I've been thinking back to what Library Land was like 25 years ago when I came to work for Washington County Library. Do you remember? We located library materials using microfiche, and a lot of the answers librarians found for people were located in reference books. Magazine and newspaper articles were researched using Readers’ Guide, and if you were lucky, the library subscribed to the fiche for the magazine you needed so you could print out a copy of the article. My how times have changed! It has truly been an eRevolution that I have been a part of: online computers that let our customers search the holdings of the Washington County Library system, online databases that allow customers to view and …

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Angela's Angle

Summer Reading For This Woodbury Resident: eBook Style

I’ve been utilizing the new eBook format at Washington County libraries. Here’s what I found out.

I’m an insatiable reader who’s been reading just for you! As summer reading suggestions pile up and e-readers fly off of store shelves, it’s time to try out Washington County Library’s new e-book offerings. I’ve been testing the service, and here’s what I’ve found so far. I have an iPad and a Kindle and have read purchased books on both. I have not yet used a Nook from Barnes and Noble. But I’ve encouraged my mother to buy a Nook as her first e-reader—because Barnes and Noble offers in-store booksellers to help reluctant technology adopters, like my mom, get started. Another advantage of a Nook is that it supports the EPUB format used by Washington County Library. I’m disappointed that I can’t borrow library eBooks on my Kindle. A …

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