Audiobooks: Another Way to Enjoy Stories
Have you heard? Grier Library has a collection of audiobooks that students and faculty can borrow! Audiobooks are a great way to listen to novels. Many are read by professional voice actors and some contain a full cast of actors, each reading a different voice. Struggling readers sometimes find that audiobooks help them through a challenging read. Other readers just enjoy the easy, hands-free option of an audiobook.
Most of our audiobooks are in CD format, but others are available in a portable, stand-alone device. To listen to the audiobooks on CD, you'll need either a computer with a CD drive or a CD player, but if you don't have either of those, you can certainly use the library's computers. Most of these CD audiobooks support Grier's English curricula, so you'll find To Kill a Mockingbird, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, and Pride and Prejudice among many other titles.
New this year, the Library has also started acquiring goReader devices that users can borrow. These portable, stand-alone devices are like little MP3 players that come pre-programmed with one audiobook. Users can skip, pause, and rewind through the book. Currently, Grier has YA novels Gem & Dixie and The One Memory of Flora Banks on goReader devices.
Streaming and digital download subscriptions like Audible and OverDrive are options that Grier Library may adopt in the future, as many libraries already have. For now, Grier students can enjoy the benefit of a permanent collection of CD audiobooks, a growing collection of goReader devices, and access to audiobooks of classics in the public domain through the website LibriVox (https://librivox.org/).
Check out an audiobook today!
Learn more about Grier's Library and explore the Library News Archive.
By R. Woolfrey | Photo credit: R. Woolfrey
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New this year, the Library has also started acquiring goReader devices that users can borrow. These portable, stand-alone devices are like little MP3 players that come pre-programmed with one audiobook. Users can skip, pause, and rewind through the book. Currently, Grier has YA novels Gem & Dixie and The One Memory of Flora Banks on goReader devices.
Streaming and digital download subscriptions like Audible and OverDrive are options that Grier Library may adopt in the future, as many libraries already have. For now, Grier students can enjoy the benefit of a permanent collection of CD audiobooks, a growing collection of goReader devices, and access to audiobooks of classics in the public domain through the website LibriVox (https://librivox.org/).
Check out an audiobook today!
Learn more about Grier's Library and explore the Library News Archive.
By R. Woolfrey | Photo credit: R. Woolfrey
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Phone: 814-684-3000 | Fax: 814-684-2177
Phone: 814-684-3000 | Fax: 814-684-2177
