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Collection Development, Collection Development, Featured Our Recommendations for First-Time Listeners

To celebrate listening to audiobooks (and that June Is Audiobook Month), we’re giving away a tote bag full of classic productions and new favorites! From children’s titles to adult titles and fiction to nonfiction, it is the ultimate audiobook tote. To enter to win it, click here. For official rules, click here.


The benefits of listening to audiobooks are clear: audiobooks are the ultimate tool for multitaskers, as well as a great way to relax. Read more

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Promotions & Events Teen Read Week 2016: Listen for the Fun of It

Teen Read Week is a national literacy initiative created by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) to encourage teens to be regular readers, listeners, and library users. Celebrate Teen Read Week October 9-15, 2016.

This year YALSA announced a multilingual “Read for the Fun of It” theme, encouraging librarians “to highlight all of the resources and services available to the 22% of the nation’s youth who speak a language other than English at home.” Read on for fun listening suggestions, learn why audiobooks are a great resource for English Language Learners, and find more language learning tools for your library. Read more

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