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It’s National Dyslexia Awareness Month! Dyslexia is a language-based learning disability “characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities.” – International Dyslexia Association 2002 definition.  National Institute of Health research shows that dyslexia affects 5-10% of the population. It is the most common cause of reading difficulty in elementary school children.

Zinio app shutting down October 23rd

Members who use the Zinio have one week to migrate over to RBdigital’s new app. Starting on October 23rd, the Zinio app will no longer be accessible. Members who try opening the app will receive the message “Zinio for Libraries has merged with RBdigital. To access your magazine collection, please download the new RBdigital app now by clicking here*. Note: Your username and password will remain the same.”

Below the message, members will be given the options:  

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Overdrive adds reading history

Members who have requested to see lists of ebook/eaudio they’ve checked out will be happy to hear Overdrive has added Your History. When a member checks out a book, the title will automatically be added to the History. Members also have the option of adding titles manually. While members history lists aren’t shared with Overdrive or MLS, members who have privacy concerns are able to delete titles manually. There’s also an option to ‘hide’ history for those who simply don’t like clutter.

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Commission: Next Regular Meeting Oct. 19

The next Regular Commission Meeting is Oct. 19 at Southern Oaks Library at 3:30 PM.

UPDATED Commission: Executive Committee Meeting Oct. 16

The next meeting is the Executive Committee Meeting on Oct. 16 at the *Downtown Library at 1:00 PM.

*MEETING UPDATE: The location of this meeting changed to the Downtown Library, and an additional item was added to the agenda

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