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October 15, 2019

eBook Update Starting November 1, you may notice a difference in the availability of our eBook selection. Macmillan (one of the 5 major publishers in the US) has announced they will only allow Public Libraries to purchase one copy of each new eBook title for the first eight weeks after a book’s release. This means you may have to wait even longer for the eBook version of a Macmillan title. Macmillan claims library circulation of eBooks hurts their sales. This reasoning is unsound and disproved as articulated by the CEO of Overdrive . In fact, Adult use of audiobooks has increased in the last 8 years . Already America's Libraries are hampered by what publishers allow us to circulate. Some publishers don’t make some of their eBook titles available for libraries to circulate or have exclusivity contracts with companies like Amazon, disallowing Libraries from circulating their materials. And the Library price for eBooks is often 3-4 times as much as the retail. Macmillan’s embargo adds another road block to access for our library customers. If equal access to information is something you care about, I hope that you’ll visit eBooksForAll.com and sign the petition to tell Macmillan that Americas Libraries deserve to the same access to their content. Some press coverage: Slate , American Libraries , The Press Democrat .

Events

Every Wednesday Matinee: "Like Water for Chocolate" (1994) Wednesday, October 16, 2 p.m. Reading = Hope x Change (What’s Your Equation?): Screening of Jacqueline Woodson’s Webcast Wednesday, October 16, 4 p.m. Citizenship Exam Preparation Saturday, October 19, 10:30 a.m. City of Refuge: Dismal Plantation in the Revolutionary Era Great Dismal Swamp Saturday, October 19, 3 p.m. It's a Pain in the Neck (And Back Too!) Tuesday, October 22, 1 p.m. Leap Into Science: Wind Preschool Workshop (Ages 3-6) Tuesday, October 22, 4 p.m.

Open Book/Open Mind: Dan Barry in Conversation with Matthew Purdy – "This Land" Sunday, October 20, 4 p.m. Dan Barry, a New York Times columnist, will be in conversation about his book THIS LAND: America, Lost and Found, with his Times colleague Matthew Purdy, Deputy Managing Editor. The book is a landmark collection, selected from a decade of his distinctive “This Land” columns and presenting a powerful but rarely seen portrait of America.

Dr. Ed Gold is Booking it (Once Again) for the Montclair Public Library! On November 24, Dr. Ed Gold of Montclair Orthodontics will be running the Philadelphia Marathon. And will once again be running to support the Montclair Public Library! We want to give a huge thank you to Dr. Gold and to anyone who chooses to donate. Donations can be made here .

What We're Reading

Adult School Classes NPS Park Ranger Talk: Happy 100th Birthday Grand Canyon National Park Wednesday, October 16 at 7 p.m. Heroes and Lovers: Gay and Other Love Poetry in the World War I and Interwar Years Tuesday, October 22 at 7 p.m. Blues Queens of the 1920s Wednesday, October 23 at 7 p.m