Genevieve Luthy

So availability is a pretty important factor when we are selecting material in

in Libby because sometimes something is not available.

Our patients would love to listen to that audiobook, but it's just not something that's available for us.

Another way that we choose in Libby, I don't know if you've ever placed a notify me tag, but that's something you can do if there's a title that's available, but that your library hasn't purchased yet, you can put a notify me tag on it and that indicates to the library, oh, I'm interested in this.

And so last year,

Calgary Public Library patrons placed more than, I think it was 260,000 notify me tags in Libby.

So that's another way that we select material is what is the community asking for?

What is the community interested in?

Yes, it was very popular here.

And we actually just did a promotion where we made that available at a simultaneous use model.

So multiple people could borrow it at once without having to wait.

Well, so actually that's one of the, before it became popular, I think,

the publisher said, well, we'll make this available as a simultaneous use audio book.

So that was a title that we had already with that license model.

And it just happened that became very popular.

We could make it accessible.

So it depends.

Um,

I would say it can be anywhere from, some of them are $70 and some of them can be up to $170 or $200.

So libraries pay significantly more than the sort of general public.