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Buy The Box sale - September 10th! - boxes of books!

Know someone who wants to build their personal library? 

The Friends of the Metropolitan Library System present their annual Buy The Box sale on Saturday, September 10th from 8:30am to 12:30pm     (or until all available inventory is sold). First come, first served at the Friend's Sort Site located at 300 NE 50th Street in Oklahoma City (their side of our Maintenance Center). 

Wellness Minute Newsletters - August 2022

Hoopla Back-to-School collections

Hello!

Hoopla has created back-to-school collections for eBooks and Videos! I especially want to highlight the "First Day Confidence" eBook collection for our miniature customers who may be nervous about starting school for the firs time, or just going back after Summer break. All of the back-to-school collection resources can be accessed here, or at the links listed below. There are also marketing materials attached. 

New Professional Development Opportunity Available in EduBrite

Now Available in EduBrite ~ 

Niche: Ryan Dowd on Sexual Harassment: How to respond to a customer's inappropriate comments

Free to all MLS employees with our Niche Academy subscription!

Introducing AtoZ World Food and AtoZ Food America!

Hello! I am happy to say that we have added two new databases to our digital collection, A to Z World Food, and A to Z Food America.  Both resources offer thousands of recipies, culture and cuisine articles, as well as ingredient lists. Due to the popularity of our cookbooks and food culture materials, we foresee that our customers will benefit from the inclusion of these two databases into our digital collection. Both databases can be found by navigating to our databases list through the Research and Learn button on the home page. 

 

August Top 10 Course Highlights

Check out these courses on well-being and stress management available in EduBrite ~ 

Free 2-Part Virtual Webinar Coming Soon!

Free 2-Part Virtual Webinar 

Grass Roots Press - Hoopla

Hello Everyone!

There is a new collection on the Download and Stream page on Metro's home site titled Grass Roots Press. It is a collection of titles already available on Hoopla that are created for low-literacy adults and ESL learners. We've created a direct link for easier access, but staff and customers can also access the collection by going into Advanced Search and seaching for Grass Roots Press in the publishers field. 

July Top 10 Courses

Check out What's Popular From Niche Academy ~ 

Fine Free and Autorenewal Update

On June 16th, the Library Commission approved our recommendation to keep adult and young adult materials fine free permanently! We found in our tracking of materials over the last year that fine free made a positive impact on our community. We saw around 50,000 inactive accounts come back to use the library. We did see an initial increase in the number of items and accounts that went overdue once fines were removed, but autorenewal drastically reduced these numbers.

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