All the great services that are provided by South Ayrshire Libraries

1. Discover what you can do…

2. In the local community
 Free Service
 Accessible to everyone
 13 branch libraries and a mobile library
Home library service, nursing
homes visits, reminiscence box,
mono mouse magnifier, audio
books, adaptive technology,
employment clubs, book groups

3. Facts and Figures 2012/13
o
Library visits = 684,694
o
Virtual visits = 371,677
o
Population of users with
library card = 41%
o
eBook issues = 6,169
o
Book issues = 371,538
o
PC sessions = 98,744

4. Free Computer Access
o Book a flight, check your email, update
your Facebook profile, renew your car
insurance, order prescriptions
o Printers and Scanners
o Apply for online jobs,
CV workshops,
Universal Credit

5. Catch the reading bug!
Bookbug Sessions are free, fun and friendly events
for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and their families
to enjoy together.

6. eMagazines
Enjoy full digital copies of your favourite magazines
for free on your PC, Mac mobile device.

7. Comprehensive study materials including the entire
official test question bank and an online version of the
Highway code.
Hazard perception simulator with video clips in the same
format as the official test.
Free for library members.

8. Have a knit and a natter, book groups,
games workshop, photography exhibitions,
author visits

9. Working with local
Primary Schools
Discover Reading, Discover Information,
Carnegie medal and Kate Greenway medal,
mobile visits to remote smaller schools,
homework support

10. Working with local
Secondary Schools
Our Library Management
System has been rolled out
to five of the eight South
Ayrshire Secondary
Schools enabling the
pupils to take full
advantage of all our library
services.

11. We still have books!
Search for a title, download it, reserve it,
renew it, review it

12. Library app
read, renew, request
o Gain instant library access
with the South Ayrshire
Libraries mobile app.
o Now you can find a title,
reserve, borrow or renew it,
straight from your mobile.
search for „South Ayrshire Libraries‟

13. What are eBooks?
o
eBooks are downloadable
books which you can read
and audio books which you
can listen to on a computer
and / or on a mobile device
such as: an eBook reader,
mobile phone, iPod, iPad or
MP3 player.

14. e
Books & eAudio
o Easy to use, users can choose
lending period, available 24/7, no
late fees
o No returns

15. See Book. Read Book
OverDrive Read is a new in-browser eBook reader. It
works just like any eBook reading app, except you
don’t need to activate or install extra software.
o All you need is a computer, tablet, or
mobile device with a modern web
browser.
o Your eBooks are stored in the cloud,
which means you can read across a
number of different devices and your
eBooks will sync so that you don‟t
lose your place.

16. OverDrive Media Station

Showcases our entire
eBook collection in-house

Patrons can touch and
swipe to browse and
sample any title

Patrons can send any title
from an OverDrive Media
Station to their favourite
device for checkout using
a QR code, email or SMS

17. Should libraries offer eBooks?
o The answer is a resounding “yes”!
o The service has raised the library profile in the local area.
o New users include many people who had previously thought that the library
had nothing to offer.
o It appeals to younger members – and our eBook Twilight series can‟t
be lost / stolen or soaked in the bath!
o It is socially and geographically inclusive – nursing homes, the visually-
impaired and includes those that even the mobile library doesn‟t reach!
o Shift workers.

18. Library Blogs
Keep up-to-date with news, events and competitions
on our library and local history blogs

19. Awards
o APSE finalists
o Cosla Silver Medal Award
o OverDrive‟s International
Marketing Award 2010

20. Achievements
First Public Library service in Scotland to offer:
o eBooks and eAudio
o eMagazines
First Library service in Europe to allow patrons to access:
o eBooks via an OverDrive Media Station
First Public Library service in the world to publish an
eBook
o Records of the Ayrshire Militia from 1802 to 1883, available for
sale on Amazon
o Crooks in the Nooks MP3 audio tour of Old Ayr

21. South Ayrshire Libraries
were invited to write a
chapter for this
publication.
This book will be sold into Library Schools
throughout the world and will be available
from November 2013.

22. Future of Libraries?

Much talk of the “death of the printed book”.

More books than ever are being published in paper
form.

With the ever-increasing number of eBooks being
published, it adds up to more words being written,
published and read than ever before.

Consumer driven.

We are all in a 24 / 7 virtual information age.

Libraries are vital for bridging the IT divide.

23. Jean Inness,
South Ayrshire Libraries