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July 20, 2007

Calhoun Community College Libraries
Offer E-Audiobooks to Community

The Decatur and Huntsville/Cummings Research Park libraries of Calhoun Community College announce the availability of its Recorded Books to Calhoun students as well as the community citizens. Interested students and residents of Calhoun’s four-county service area can now go to one of the two libraries—Brewer Library on the Decatur campus or the Learning Resources Center on the Huntsville campus—to Create a Free Account.

According to Lucinda Beddow, head librarian for the college, electronic audiobooks (eAudiobooks) can then be downloaded from home to the desk top where one can listen to a book much like you would a music CD, or download the book to an MP3 player that offers the portability of ‘going where you go’. “Among the categories offered in our collection are works of fiction, including the classics, nonfiction, mystery and suspense, business, languages, and the Modern Scholar Lecture Series,” Beddow commented. “We recently added 1600 electronic audiobook selections, which allows us to offer books for almost any taste,” she added.

In addition to the electronic audiobook program, the Calhoun library and Learning Resources Center have joined Open WorldCat (www.worldcat.org), a program which allows library staff to locate a book anywhere in the world. This service is also available to the community.

For more information on either of these new services, call the Calhoun Brewer Library in Decatur at 256-306-2774 or the college’s Learning Resources Center at the Huntsville campus at 256-890-4774. Visit the Calhoun Library online.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:

Janet Kincherlow-Martin
Director of Public Relations
(256) 306-2561

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