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Below is a press release announcing the 2 millionth checkout of the Wisconsin Digital Library that we hit a few weeks ago. Please use it if you’d like. We’ll probably prepare another when we hit 1,000,000 checkouts for 2012, probably in October.

2 millionth checkout press release

There is a new scrolling collection shown on the home page of the Digital Library for spooky Halloween-y books….Wisconsin is well-represented! It’ll be traded it out around November 1 for food-related and/or seasonal books.

The agenda for the September 25, 2012, WPLC meeting is here.

WPLC September 2012 Meeting Agenda

Jim Trojanowski
Director, Northern Waters Library Service
jtrojanowski@nwls.lib.wi.us

It’s bad news but everyone with Advantage accounts should consider placing orders for Hachette titles prior to the price increase.  Here’s the announcement from OverDrive:

Dear Library Partner,

Hachette will be raising its eBook prices on October 1, 2012 on their currently available eBook catalog (~3,500 eBook titles with release dates of April 2010 and earlier). On average prices will increase 220%.