“The Four Corners of the Sky is master storyteller Michael Malone’s novel of love, secrets, and the mysterious bonds of families. Malone brings characters to life as only he can, exploring the questions that defy easy answers: Is love a choice or a calling? Why do the ties of family bind so tightly? And is forgiveness a gift to others…or a gift we give ourselves?”

Subject: Adult Fiction

Formats: OverDrive Read, Kindle (US only), EPUB, PDF

The “Check Library” bookmarklet lets you know whether a title is available at your library from bookstores and other websites across the web. It checks all the editions of the title, not just the edition you’re looking at. Get it here.

Preview a few titles and learn how it will work at: http://read.overdrive.com/about

Do you know that SAILS has a e-catalog mobile app called BookMyne?

BookMyne lets you:

• Search the SAILS e-catalog and Enterprise e-catalog
• Place holds
• Log into My Account and renew items checked out
• Get reading recommendations
• Scan barcodes and see if SAILS has the book
• Create and save items to My Lists

Get the app today!

Go to e-catalog Enterprise

Go to the new Overdrive Next Generation Download Library and see a video on what’s to come!

View Asst. Director Jason Bloom playing the Didgeridoo.

The Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners has re-certified the Bridgewater  and Norton libraries. Are you a  resident from one of these communities? If so, with your library card you can once again access to over 4 million items through the SAILS Network, and over 37 million items in the state – delivered to your library!

The following are features to look out for:

• Book lists – the new book lists are not working correctly, but the NYTimes best sellers are
• Databases – we can directly search the Gale “General OneFile” database, just as you would search the catalog. Use the drop-down list or after you perform a search, click on “Database Search” on the left above “Limit Search Results”.
• Portuguese language option – still being worked on, but take a look. Select your language up at the top of the site.
• **My Lists - When logging into Enterprise (e-catalog beta)  for the first time, the My List from e-Library will be migrated over to Enterprise. This happens once and then the Enterprise library my list will be that active list. So if you go back to e-catalog and add to lists there, they won’t become active in Enterprise.

When will Enterprise be the default catalog?
Once we get all the logins set up for each public library and find that everything is working as it should be, we will let libraries know and then send out the links for them to use at their OPAC stations in the library.

When will e-catalog go away?
We will have both versions running for several months. It’s going to take us some time to get everything set up for all of our different libraries.

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