FLP additions?

Originally Posted by issybird

Condolences. I clearly was lucky; I must have stumbled on it right after it was listed, because the number skyrocketed quickly.

As an aside, I wish Philly hadn't gone back to a three-week checkout period. It really drags out a waiting list. I have nothing to back it up, but my sense is that most people let their books expire, rather than returning them once read. I hope I'm wrong.

Another thing that could help is that at least for my local [Wisconsin] ebook library the default is checkout as soon as it becomes available. As opposed to email sent and then a three day waiting period during which the book may be checked out as the must opt in alternate.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by PG4003

I emailed the Philadelphia Library about no new additions and here's the response I got:
Hello,
Thank you for your email. You are correct. We have added fewer titles than usual to our Overdrive collection in the past few weeks. Our priorities for licensing ebooks are to fill holds for people who are already on the waiting list for particular ebooks and then to add new best sellers to our collections. However, as the our fiscal year comes to a close we have had to adjust our purchasing for the library's limited budget. We hope to begin adding new titles soon as our budget allows. In the slightly longer term, our purchasing will return to normal when our new budget year begins on 7/1/2015.
Also, in the meantime, please also take a look at our Freeding collection of ebooks. Here you'll find titles that are not available in Overdrive. Also, if you are a fan of audio books, take a look at Hoopla and OneClick Digital. You'll find links to our Freading, Hoopla, and OneClick sites on our Digital Media page: http://search.freelibrary.org/digitalmedia.cfm
I hope this information is helpful to you. Thank you,
Jamie
Free Library of Philadelphia

Alrighty, July 7 and I still see no new books.

It might be the categories I check first, history and literature, but given that they seem to have a broad definition of literature, that doesn't seem likely. I really expected to be inundated with new titles by now.

Yes, I know I have plenty to read, I just want more. Is that so hard to understand?

Seriously, I just hope that fiscal woes haven't affected their planned purchase of Go Set a Watchman. I got such a great position on the Philly hold list (#2), that I didn't bother to get on the list at any of my other libraries.

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by issybird

Alrighty, July 7 and I still see no new books.

It might be the categories I check first, history and literature, but given that they seem to have a broad definition of literature, that doesn't seem likely.

I don't know, but if I do an advanced search and tell it to show me all new eBooks added in the last 7 days I get a result with 348 new titles. If that search is expanded to 30 days it finds only two additional titles so perhaps they're just getting back to buying new books.

http://freelibrary.lib.overdrive.com...rtBy=Relevancy

[tilia]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

I don't know, but if I do an advanced search and tell it to show me all new eBooks added in the last 7 days I get a result with 348 new titles. If that search is expanded to 30 days it finds only two additional titles so perhaps they're just getting back to buying new books.

http://freelibrary.lib.overdrive.com...rtBy=Relevancy

Yes, they added the first books as soon as it turned July. I even got an email on the 1. since they added a book I'd recommended.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

I don't know, but if I do an advanced search and tell it to show me all new eBooks added in the last 7 days I get a result with 348 new titles. If that search is expanded to 30 days it finds only two additional titles so perhaps they're just getting back to buying new books.

http://freelibrary.lib.overdrive.com...rtBy=Relevancy

Thank you for the tip. I went back and did a search for seven days and indeed, I got 11 results in history. Nothing I'd be remotely interested in reading, however, so I suspect my eye just glanced over them when I searched by most recent. My error of course.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

I don't know, but if I do an advanced search and tell it to show me all new eBooks added in the last 7 days I get a result with 348 new titles. If that search is expanded to 30 days it finds only two additional titles so perhaps they're just getting back to buying new books.

http://freelibrary.lib.overdrive.com...rtBy=Relevancy

That link leads to an error page, because it is for a generated search that expired. This link should be the same one, except it is the URL which generates the query: http://freelibrary.lib.overdrive.com...CollDate=%3E*7
(the "7" at the end is the number of days. Only English ebooks will be selected.)