Knox County Public Library, Knoxville, TN

Update your OverDrive Media Console app

OverDrive has released version 2.4 of OverDrive® Media Console™ for Android™, BlackBerry® and Windows Phone.

With this release…

• Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone users can return audiobooks as well as eBooks.
• Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone users can find definitions while reading using the dictionary lookup feature.

Audiobook return and dictionary lookup are coming soon for iOS.

The system requirements are still the same. The free apps can be installed on phones and devices running…

• Android OS v1.5 (or newer)
• Touch screen BlackBerry OS v4.7 (or newer)
• Non-touch screen BlackBerry OS v4.5 (or newer)
• Windows Phone 7

The updated app is available from:

• Android Market
• BlackBerry AppWorld™
• MobiHand™ App Store
• Windows Marketplace
• http://www.overdrive.com/software/omc

Brown Bag, Green Book #22: The Bridge at the edge of the world

The selected book, The bridge at the edge of the world: capitalism, the environment, and crossing from crisis to sustainability, suggests that our current emphasis on economic growth does not allow for critical environmental protections. Columnist Frank Cagle responds to some of the ideas in the book.

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Brown Bag, Green Book #21: Living downstream

Edye Ellis, former co-anchor of WBIR-TV Channel 10, talks about surviving cancer and the importance of understanding the risks of exposure to toxins. The book Living downstream: an ecologist's personal investigation of cancer and the environment suggests that reducing our dependence on coal and petroleum not only makes sense from a green-energy perspective, but it would also reduce the amount of toxins in our environment.

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Free online seminar for business owners

Topic:  Start, Manage, Grow!  How Businesses can use ReferenceUSA
Day/Date:  Mondays (through September 26)
Time:  2:30 PM Eastern (1 hour)

Entrepreneurs and business owners will learn how to use ReferenceUSA (one of the Library's resources) to find the mission critical information necessary to start, manage and grow a business. Topics include:

• research prospects and prospective clients
• locate hard to find vendors, both locally and nationally
• network with other businesses in your area or in your industry
• develop relationships with related business for co-branding opportunities
• understand community demographics
• survey locations for expansion
• conduct competitive analysis
• locate subject manager experts and professional services
• source new employees
• find investors, venture capitalists and angels
• plan delivery routes and service areas

Register for a session. Note the times may display in the Central time zone. You can change your time zone in the website.