When I check out CDs from my public library, I use my laptop to download on itunes so I can listen on my iPhone. I label it as a library book and delete the file when I’m finished listening. I never have to worry that I may bring the disks back late and can listen at my leisure. If you are a 1:1 school, could you download the files on the school server and limit the checkout the way Overdrive or Hoopla does? Don’t know if that would be a copyright violation or not.

From: CASL-L [mailto:casl-l-bounces@mylist.net] On Behalf Of Green, Derrith
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2016 8:19 AM
To: CASL-L@mylist.net
Subject: [CASL-L] Audiobooks on CD

Hello,

We have a substantial collection of audiobooks on CD (including MP3), but many students no longer own CD players. I am wondering what others have done so that these materials can still be of use. Has anyone actually purchased small disc players for checkout with an audiobook? Other ideas? Also, what have you purchased in place of the CDs? Playaways? Are your students accessing digital audiobooks as much as they did CDs? Thanks in advance! 

Derrith Green 

Library Media Specialist / Action Club Advisor

Windsor High School

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