Collection Development, Collection Development, Featured Our Recommendations for First-Time Listeners Submitted by Taraneh DJangi on June 21, 2018

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

Tagged: Amie Kaufman, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE, Billie Lourd, Carrie Fisher, Douglas Adams, Elizabeth Strout, Ernest Cline, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, I've Got Your Number, ILLUMINAE, J.K. Rowling, Jay Kristoff, Jayne Entwistle, Jim Dale, Johnathan McClain, Kimberly Farr, Lincoln Hoppe, Max Brooks, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Philip Pullman, READY PLAYER ONE, Sophie Kinsella, Stephen Fry, the golden compass, THE HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, The Princess Diarist, Wil Wheaton, WORLD WAR Z

Featured-LL, Listening Library 9 Classics to Listen to During Children’s Book Week Submitted by Erin Murphy on May 1, 2018

From The Hundred Acre Wood to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory, children’s books have been transporting us to incredible places for decades. Read more

Tagged: AA Milne, blueberries for sal, charlie and the chocolate factory, charlotte's web, children's book week, Classics, corduroy, don freeman, douglas hodge, Dr. Seuss, e.b. white, finola hughes, francess hodgson burnett, J.M. Barrie, Jacqueline Woodson, Jim Dale, judi dench, kelsey grammar, lynne thigpen, Melba Sibrel, Michael Williams, Mildred D. Taylor, Peter Pan, Roald Dahl, robert mcloskey, ROLL OF THUNDER HEAR MY CRY, Stephen Fry, THE CAT IN THE HAT, the secret garden

Awards & Recognition, Featured-LL American Library Association’s 2018 Youth Media Award Winners on Audio Submitted by Jennifer Rubins on February 15, 2018

The American Library Association’s 2018 Youth Media Awards were announced on Monday morning at the ALA Midwinter Convention in Denver, Colorado and we are excited to share our TWO new 2018 Odyssey Award Honors with you, as well as twenty-five ALSC Notable and YALSA Amazing audiobooks! Plus, from the Printz to the Pura Belpré, we have a not-to-be-missed list of remarkable award winners in the audio format, perfect to recommend to kids and teens at your library. Listen to clips, read reviews, and find more fun content to share below. Read more

Tagged: A BOY CALLED CHRISTMAS, ALA, ALA Awards, ALA Midwinter, Matt Haig, Michael Sheen, Odyssey Award, Philip Pullman, Stephen Fry, THE BOOK OF DUST: LA BELLE SAUVAGE, THE STARS BENEATH OUR FEET, WE ARE OKAY

Promotions & Events Download free audiobooks all summer long via SYNC Submitted by Kristen Luby on August 1, 2017

Encourage summer listening at your library! SYNC is a free summer audiobook program for teens 13+ (and adult listeners, too!). From April 27 through August 16, 2017, SYNC will give away two complete audiobook downloads each week, including four outstanding Listening Library titles! Visit www.audiobooksync.com each week for two new audio offerings. Once downloaded, these audios are yours to keep—but hurry, each title is available for one week only! Read more