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I had a conversation this afternoon with the director of my regional public library, about Libby. She said that tagging books as Notify Me is what tells her what to buy. Libby notifies her about the requests for books from users, and if any book has more than three requests, she orders it. So using Notify Me is important!!!
#Libby #PublicLibraries #Books
@gladsdotter *Smashes button*
@gladsdotter good to know! I've been tagging it often but didn't know if it would do any good.
@dillyd @gladsdotter My library made one available to me a few months after I tagged it with "Notify Me"! Maybe I was the tipping point.
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I love the Notify Me button in Libby! I got to be the first person to borrow @pluralistic 's Picks and Shovels from the Montreal library because of that feature, and now there's a 14-week wait!
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I also remembered that I'm the first person in Montreal to borrow Sarah Wynn-Williams' Careless People ebook, because of that Notify Me tag in Libby.
If you're one of the 62 people waiting for me to finish, I'm sorry it's taking me so long!
@gladsdotter Thanks, this is really great.
Do you know, offhand, if there’s any option to tag books that don’t show up in the Libby search?
(I can also ask next time i@ at the library)
@curt_nordgaard If you use the "Extended Search" option, it will show you additional books, including those that are months out from publication.
@gladsdotter Thanks! My version has a ‘deep search’ that pulled up the title.
Yes!
Hoopla carries a lot more of the books that I want, but it's a travesty that they don't appear to have any way to indicate that you want future books
@gladsdotter oh, great, good to know!!
@gladsdotter LOL, I'm glad to hear that. It must vary from city to city because it's never once worked for me personally, but I keep tagging them. Some day!
@gladsdotter Great advice!
@gladsdotter @marcia fascinating good to know! I didn’t know if it was just a personal button that went nowhere.
@gladsdotter thank you very much, I wondered if it is of any use, I'll be using it more often!
@gladsdotter Be aware that as great as services like Libby and Hoopla are, they cost your local library many times what a physical book with the same circulation count would cost. Unfortunately the authors are not the beneficiaries of this inflation.
@gladsdotter yes this works. I just finished Overlondon co-written co-written by George Penney because it works.
@gladsdotter i use it often, good to know it counts!
@gladsdotter I can tell when my library orders on a certain day of the week because a book will be in on my notify list ^-^
@gladsdotter Wow, thanks for letting us know! I always wondered if that button did anything, and cynically assumed it did nothing.
@gladsdotter I’ve had this work for me as well, though it depends on the library. I have four libraries in Libby and one is fairly responsive to Notify Me while the others are not.
@gladsdotter I’ll also add Notify me gets you a notify as soon as the library adds the book, which I’ve used to get onto a hold list fairly early. So even if the book is something the library is sure to add, having a Notify Me tag helps you get it faster.
@gladsdotter for anyone else who is confused, this might help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozz9q3ZUN-w
I think this only works on certain books that have that icon with a bell. So if the book (or author) you want to recommend isn't there this feature doesn't do anything. It is great to know about to find other books from a favorite author!
@gladsdotter Oo, good to know. Thank you!
@gladsdotter That is really good to know. I tag books Notify Me like there's no tomorrow, but for entirely selfish reasons, without thinking that it might contribute to collective influence. Thanks for sharing this tip.
@gladsdotter just a quick add-on, if you use a library that is small or especially underfunded, a direct request to the library to purchase a particular title in a particular format is very welcome! The notify me tags are great, but at least where I am, we can never keep up with them, and if I have a request that I received directly, I’m very likely to make that purchase.
@gladsdotter I'm a serial notify me user. It works!
@gladsdotter @Charlotte0810 I have had success with this feature.
+1
my local library seems to pay attention to "notify me" and it's always good to let your local branch know how to spend their digital copy money.
@gladsdotter I don't know about US libraries, but merely using Libby or similar e-delivery counts as a traditional 'visit' to a library, which is very important for their continuing fight against those who would close them.