If you love audiobooks, or if you are just getting started with them, the SYNC audiobook program is fun, and interesting.
You may already know it as it has been a summer program for the past 12 years. It’s targeted toward teens but anyone over 13 years old can access.
Each week the SYNC program provides two thematically paired audiobooks for checkout.
Once the titles have been added to your shelf in Sora, you can listen to them again and again, for as long as you want – just make sure you don’t return them!
There is something sublime in its randomness, its supreme ability to surprise.
Mail is the completion of an event, an act.
Someone put forth an effort to send something and the delivery to your mailbox is the final step, the culmination of a timeless method of communication.
It’s a concept similar to the light of stars, but in a different scope.
Every birthday card, holiday melange of pictures of relatives, or a mere note sent by a treasured friend: all are the representations of someone else’s present, now a few days in the past.
We are looking after our patrons in many ways during this temporary return to carry-out service.
We have a lot of great online resources available to patrons with Des Plaines Library cards.
If you do not have a library card, you can fill out our online application from home.
We will process temporary cards while we are closed and you can come to the carry-out desk and pick up your physical card whenever you are ready.
We want you to get what you need now, so we have access to checkouts in Hoopla and Kanopy from 10 a month to 20.
We will also be keeping a close eye on holds and ordering additional copies of in-demand ebooks and eaudiobooks so that our patrons can get them faster.
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