New Year–New E-books!

Looking for something to read when you are on a long bus ride this semester?  Forgot your ISR book on Fridays?   Remember that you can  check out library e-books to your iPad from anywhere that you have WI-FI access.

ebooks overdriveWe have added tons of new e-books for the New Year, so there’s something for everyone, from the Divergent Series to the New York Times Bestseller list!

Check out the Overdrive Shelf here to see new titles

or stop by Follett’s Shelf page to see what we have there!   Follett ebooks

For more help with passwords, logins, and how to find things, go to the E-books page for more info, or ask a friendly library staffer!  Happy Reading!

Time for some summer reading!

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Summertime is almost here!

The “required” summer reading lists for AP are ready to go, but first, don’t you want to do some leisure reading too?

Check out the library staff’s recommendations of what’s hot and popular on our Summer 2013 reading list!  Download as a PDF for handy reference(we’ve marked titles available as ebooks, too).   summer reading 2013 bookmark new pdf.

And if you need tips with checking out our e-books, this handy flyer should help. Download this Ebook instructions Summer reading PDF  for how to use  Follett Shelf, Mackin Via, and Overdrive e-books.  (Or email us if you get stuck!)

If you really like it, send us a “selfie” of you reading a book from our list this summer!  Happy reading!

photo credit:  Flickr:  opensourceway

NEW! Library E-Books for the iPad or Kindle/Nook!

Ever get annoyed having to buy books for your Kindle or iPad?  The library is here to help!

Check out Overdrive, our new “E-book” checkout service.  Download the Overdrive app to your iPad (or the software to your computer), locate the Westlake High School library in the list of choices, and you are good to go.   (Your student ID number is your library card number.)   The books can then be downloaded to your iPad or Nook or Kindle or ….you get the idea!

Want to see the list of books available so far?  Check out the E-books page!

Need some help getting started?  Check out the tutorials page!

Want to recommend a title?  Email us!

*** Westbank Community Library and Austin Public also offer Overdrive so add them to your iPad as well!