#22 Audiobooks (or "The end is in sight ")

With your new MP3 player right around the corner, it’s time to take a look around the Greater Phoenix Digital Library and downloadable Overdrive audiobooks.

The Scottsdale Public Library is part of the Greater Phoenix Digital Library, a consortium with Phoenix, Glendale, Tempe, Chandler and Apache Junction Public Libraries. This provides eBooks, eAudiobooks, music, and video available for downloading into a PC, PDA or MP3 player, through a company called Overdrive.

For this exercise, you will need:

* Home computer
* Internet connection
* Scottsdale Public Library card and PIN
* Compatible MP3 player (optional)

Then, get an idea of the types of titles you can find here. Take a look around and locate a few titles of interest. That MP3 player is right around the corner and once you have it, you’ll definitely have a reason to try out this popular library service.

Discovery Resources:

For this discovery exercise, you need to familiarize yourself a bit with the structure of Overdrive's Downloadable audiobooks site.

Discovery Exercise:

Create a blog post about your findings. Did you locate a title that you might want to try out and download once you have your player? OPTIONAL: Try downloading a title from the Greater Phoenix Digital Library. You don’t have to have a portable player to listen to audiobooks, you can also listen to it from a home computer.