Now available -- OverDrive Music:
Now you can browse and search for hundreds of great music titles and download them to your computer or transfer them to a portable device for your listening pleasure anywhere, anytime. Try it, it's easy!
Now available -- OverDrive Videos:
Find hundreds of videos and download them to your computer or transfer them to a portable device for viewing anywhere, anytime.
A total of 6 items may be checked out -- any combination of audio books, videos, or music.
New Technology Gadget Collection:
Wisconsin Library Systems and Public Libraries may reserve the New Technology Gadget Collection for a period of three weeks. Details and a reservation form are at http://www.scls.info/ce/wplcgadgets/.
Digital Download Center Project:
Digital Audio Books, Music and Videos are available through these WPLC member library
systems:
Eastern
Shores Library System
Indianhead
Federated Library System
Kenosha
County Library System
Lakeshores Library System
Manitowoc-Calumet
Library System
Mid-Wisconsin Federated Library System
Milwaukee County Federated Library System
Nicolet
Federated Library System
Northern
Waters Library Service
Outagamie
Waupaca Library System
South
Central Library System
Southwest Wisconsin Library System
Waukesha
County Federated Library System (except New
Berlin)
Winding
Rivers Library System
Winnefox
Library System
Wisconsin
Valley Library Service
Not sure which library system you're in? Find
out by using this map.
Digital Audio Books, Music and Videos are also available
to patrons of the Wisconsin
Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.
The Digital
Book Center FAQ wiki offers
info on using portable devices, burning books to CD, software &
hardware requirements and placing holds, as well as WPLC's Selection Policy.
The Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (WPLC) is a cooperative group whose members include public library systems and public libraries throughout Wisconsin. WPLC was created and exists to pool the resources of libraries throughout the state and use them to cooperatively undertake projects that may otherwise be unavailable to single libraries and library systems or could be enhanced through cooperation, thus sharing both the costs and the knowledge and resources acquired.
Specifically, WPLC exists to:
- Provide Wisconsin citizens with access to a collection of electronically published books (ebooks) in a wide range of subjects, from expensive reference titles to recreational reading materials, which they may read from home, work or school or from any member library in the Consortium.
- Undertake such other projects, primarily concerned with research and development and/or new technologies, as the Consortium shall from time to time determine.
- Increase public awareness about the availability and advantages of electronic books and such other projects and services as the Consortium may from time to time undertake.
- Increase public library staff understanding of new technologies and other Consortium undertakings, and to develop training programs so that staff may help the public understand and use these products and services.
- Maintain a decision-making and fiscal model for public library cooperation that will allow libraries to collaborate to explore and implement new information technologies and issues, sharing the costs as well as the knowledge and resources.
In Spring 2000, the South Central Library System, on behalf of a group of Wisconsin library systems, submitted a grant application to the Wisconsin Advanced Telecommunications Foundation (WATF). The grant application requested $189,000 of WATF funds, to which $63,000 would be added by the initial partners.