If you love reading eBooks and listening to digital audiobooks, this is something you have probably wondered about. Seems like it should be easy, right? Buy 100 digital copies of a book and let everyone borrow them! But it's not that easy. It can be a hard issue to explain for libraries. Publishers of eContent (eBooks and digital audiobooks) have control over how they license their books to libraries and library vendors like OverDrive and RBdigital. Libraries cannot buy eBooks and digital audiobooks like an individual consumer does. We have to work through a library vendor which provides a platform for you to be able to place holds and check out the items. It's technologically and financially not feasible for libraries to build their own platforms for this. These platforms do extra duty and take care of managing the licensing rights that publishers impose. Pima County Public Library subscribes to OverDrive and RBdigital, which work with individual publishers to get cont

The Louise A. Stephens Memorial Scholarship Committee is now accepting applications for the 2019 Scholarship year. Applications are due by  August 31, 2019 . For more information, go to the  Louise A. Stephens Memorial Scholarship  page. Don't miss out on this great opportunity!

The Arizona Library Association is looking to coin its own slogan! Submit your idea for a brief (3-10 word)  slogan that you think represents the mission and focus of the Arizona Library Association. The creator of the winning slogan receives a free 2019 Conference scholarship. Submit your idea  HERE! Questions to jump-start your slogan brainstorming include: How does AzLA uphold the values of librarianship? What do you think are AzLA's goals? How can AzLA encourage its members to participate? How does AzLA create a sense of community? Applications open on June 24, 2019 and will close on July 31, 2019. The top 5 slogans will be put to a vote among the general membership no later than August 31, 2019. The new AzLA slogan will be unveiled at the Annual Conference on November 7-8, 2019.