eAudiobooks are available at the York County Public Library through NetLibrary.  Library patrons now have anytime, anywhere access to over 200 eAudiobook titles.  Titles can be accessed through the library's "Online Databases" webpage.  New users will need to stop by the library and create a NetLibrary account before they can access eAudiobooks from their home computer.  If you have previously set up a NetLibrary eBook account, your username and password can also be used to access eAudiobooks.  eAudiobooks can be played on any desktop PC or laptop that supports Windows Media Player version 9 and above.  Patrons can also transfer titles to a wide range of portable devices that support playback of protected wma files.

For more information, contact the library's reference staff at (757) 890-5120.  Two brochures, Quick Start Guide for eAudiobooks and Going Portable with eAudiobooks, are available at the library.  These guides are also available online via the "Help" link located in the upper right corner on the NetLibrary website, netlibrary.com.  NetLibrary offers an excellent self-guided demonstration too.  Patrons must sign-in to their NetLibrary account to access "Help" topics.

Over 16,000 NetLibrary eBooks are also available to Library patrons.  An additional 3,400 eBooks are available in the NetLibrary Publicly-Accessible eBook collection.  If you have already established a NetLibrary account, visit netlibrary.com and log in.  If you do not have a NetLibrary account, you can create an account from any public computer at the Tabb or Yorktown Library.  For more information about NetLibrary, contact the Reference Department at 890-5120.

George Soros, the legendary financier, philanthropist and bestselling author, has written a new book on the current financial crisis that will be available as the NetLibrary eBook of the Month selection for May.  In The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means, Soros places the current crisis in the context of decades of study of how individuals and institutions handle the boom and bust cycles that now dominate global economic activity.  This eBook will be available to York County Public Library patrons through May 31, 2008.