{"id":4479,"date":"2021-01-29T13:24:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T20:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=4479"},"modified":"2021-08-31T16:50:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T23:50:59","slug":"meet-libby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2021\/01\/29\/meet-libby\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Libby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote is-style-default\" style=\"border-color:#0055b7\"><blockquote class=\"has-text-color has-ubc-blue-color\"><p><em>ingenia hominum rem publicam fecit<\/em>&nbsp;<br>(He made men\u2019s talents a public possession)<\/p><cite>Pliny the Elder on Literary patron Gaius Asinius Pollio<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Libraries are meant for sharing public knowledge, and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.overdrive.com\/apps\/libby\/\" target=\"_blank\">Libby <\/a>is an app that facilitates access to digitalized libraries across Android and Apple devices. I love listening to stories &#8211; my parents always played radio-theatre shows on roadtrips &#8211; and audiobooks are my go-to contemporary version of enjoying a moment with a good storyteller. Here in Montreal, Libby gives me at-home access to the public library and the province-wide Biblioth\u00e8que et Archives nationales du Qu\u00e9bec (BAnQ), and these two resources provide lots of reading and listening enjoyment. It is possible to procure access to a library in another city, but you need to pay for the non-resident card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The educational alternatives to Libby are <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.overdrive.com\/apps\/sora\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sora <\/a>for K-12 and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/company.overdrive.com\/academic-libraries\/\" target=\"_blank\">OverDrive Professional<\/a> for academic libraries. I haven&#8217;t used these, but they provide a means for educators to remotely share materials. From what I could see on the site, the K-12 teacher can use this for giving literacy assignments while student reading activities are tracked and rewarded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s some more information about the app: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileappdaily.com\/app-review\/libby-library-app\" target=\"_blank\">Libby App Review<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy reading (and listening!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libraries are meant for sharing public knowledge, and Libby is an app that facilitates access to digitalized libraries across Android and Apple devices.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2021\/01\/29\/meet-libby\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meet Libby<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":67434,"featured_media":4469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[95,94,96,93],"class_list":["post-4479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobileculture","tag-audiobooks","tag-bookshare","tag-digital-library","tag-library","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67434"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4479"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6395,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479\/revisions\/6395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}