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OverDrive Unlimited User Access Opportunity

June 23, 2020 by Jason Yamashita | 0 comments

In an effort to support awareness and learning, our OverDrive collection [New Window] vendor has launched the Black Lives Matter: Community Read program. During the time frames listed below, the following titles will be available with unlimited user access.

Click on the book covers below to borrow in OverDrive [New Window].

The Hate U Give (available through July 12) and The New Jim Crow (available through July 15) book covers.
Me and White Supremacy (available through July 19) and So You Want to Talk About Race (available June 29 to July 26) book covers.

New to using OverDrive? Please visit the OverDrive Collection Basics LibGuide [New Window] or contact the Reference Desk [New Window] with your questions.

New OverDrive Reads – June 2020

June 1, 2020 by Jason Yamashita | 0 comments

New e-books to start your summer reading.

Click on the book’s image below to access the e-book’s Primo record. In the record’s “View Online” section, the provided link will direct you to borrowing in OverDrive [New Window].

 Microsoft Teams for Dummies book cover. Sansei and Sensibility book cover. Upstream book cover. The Art of Showing Up book cover. The Introvert's Complete Career Guide book cover. Coronavirus: A Book for Children book cover. The Adaptation Advantage book cover.

Need a little help with OverDrive? Use the OverDrive Collection Basics LibGuide [New Window] or contact the Reference Desk [New Window].

More digital book, periodical, and streaming video options [New Window]

 

OverDrive Basics and Suggested Summer Reads

May 8, 2020 by Jason Yamashita | 0 comments

Summer is the perfect time to check out our digital OverDrive collection [New Window]. We’re currently featuring a Suggested Summer Reads [New Window] sub-collection of popular and notable titles.

If you haven’t tried using the OverDrive or Libby apps for added convenience, a new LibGuide [New Window] is available to walk you through some basics.

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While the Hawaii State Public Library System remains closed through May, you can even access their bountiful OverDrive collection using the OverDrive/Libby app you use for our collection. See “Setting Up the App” in the LibGuide [New Window] for more details. 

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And don’t forget, our “virtual” doors are always open with an assortment of digital Research Tools [New Window] to access e-books, periodical articles, and streaming videos.

 

New OverDrive Digital Titles – April 2020

April 14, 2020 by Jason Yamashita | 0 comments

Click on the book’s image below to access the e-book’s Primo record. In the record’s “View Online” section, the provided link will direct you to borrowing in OverDrive [New Window].

Hawaiian/Pacific Collection E-Books

Aloha Kitchen book cover The Legends and Myths of Hawaii book cover Hawaiian Legends of Old Honolulu book cover The Polynesian Family System in Ka-ʻU, Hawaiʻi book cover Ancient Hawaiian Civilization book cover Hawaiian Historical Legends book cover Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes book cover Six Months in the Sandwich Islands book cover Polynesian Researchers book cover

New Nonfiction and Fiction E-Books

The Blue Zones Kitchen book cover Sharks in the Time of Saviors book cover Tigers, Not Daughters book cover

Audiobooks to Laugh and Learn

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If you have a book recommendation, please suggest a title by filling out our Best Sellers & OverDrive Suggestion Form [New Window].

 

Additional e-book [New Window] and streaming video [New Window] resources

 

OverDrive Health and Wellness Reads

April 7, 2020 by Jason Yamashita | 0 comments

The Library’s OverDrive [New Window] e-book collection includes an assortment of health and wellness titles.

Mindfulness book cover Hoʻi Hou Ka Mauli Ola book cover Spark Joy book cover Big Magic book cover UnDo It! book cover The Year of Living Danishly book cover

Click on the book’s image above to access the e-book’s Primo record. In the record’s “View Online” section, the provided link will direct you to borrowing in OverDrive [New Window].

Borrowing an e-book on OverDrive is for 14 days. These e-books are returned automatically, although you can return them early in the “Loans” section of your online account.

Additional e-book [New Window] and streaming video [New Window] resources

 

Women’s History Month on OverDrive

March 17, 2020 by Jason Yamashita | 0 comments

March is Women’s History Month. Consider an e-book read from our OverDrive [New Window] collection of popular, best-selling titles.

Hawaii's Story By Hawaii's Queen book cover Insurrecto book cover Educated book cover Girl, Woman, Other book cover We Are Displaced book cover

Click on the book’s image above to access the e-book’s Primo record. In the record’s “View Online” section, the provided link will direct you to borrowing in OverDrive [New Window].

There are many more titles available…Take a look!

Additional e-book and digital resources [New Window]

 

February 2020 New Books: Best Sellers and OverDrive Collections

February 3, 2020 by Jason Yamashita | 0 comments

Best Seller Titles

Click on the book’s image to place a hold in the book’s Primo record. Use the “Get It” feature to make the request.

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous book cover The Moment of Lift book cover All-American Muslim Girl book cover Olive, Again book cover Life Will Be the Death of Me book cover Accused! book cover Who Put This Song On? book cover Searching for Sylvie Lee book cover Between Worlds book cover Ginger Bread book cover Bowlaway In at the deep end, a novel I know who you are, a novel If, then, a novel A map of days The conference of the birds

OverDrive [New Window] E-Book Titles

Click on the book’s image to access the e-book’s Primo record. In the record’s “View Online” section, the provided link will direct you to borrowing from our OverDrive [New Window] collection.

The Screwtape Letters book cover Uncanny Valley book cover Keto Diet for Dummies book cover Before and After the Book Deal book cover No Visible Bruises book cover Loserthink book cover

Looking for a book that we currently don’t have in our collection? Please suggest a book title by filling out our Best Sellers & OverDrive Suggestion Form [New Window].

 

Grateful for…New OverDrive Reads!

November 26, 2019 by Wayde Oshiro | 0 comments

Although the library will be closed on Thursday and Friday, consider remotely borrowing a digital book this Thanksgiving weekend.

These new e-book titles below have been added to our OverDrive collection [New Window]. Click on the book cover image to access in OverDrive.

The Power of Nunchi book cover On Fire book cover The Crying Book book cover Girl, Woman, Other book cover Ordinary Girls book cover Represent book cover Meet the Candidates 2020: Elizabeth Warren book cover Meet the Candidates 2020: Pete Buttigieg book cover Meet the Candidates 2020: Joe Biden Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution book cover The Truths We Hold book cover The War on Normal People book cover United book cover Joe Biden book cover Elizabeth Warren book cover

Explore a wonderland of reading on OverDrive [New Window]!

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