Happy birthday to Ebooks Minnesota! The ebook collection is celebrating its 1st birthday this week. The collection, made up of 3,757 titles, primarily from Minnesota publishers, is averaging 18 circulations for each title. Though you can read books without creating a profile in Ebooks Minnesota, approximately 4,000 Minnesotans have created one. Creating a profile allows you to download books to read offline, bookmark pages, write notes, and add favorites. The 4 cities with the highest usage in Minnesota include Minneapolis, St. Paul, Bloomington, and Fridley.
The top 10 most accessed titles of the past year are:
- It's a Baby Giraffe
- Captured by Pirates
- The Hole in the Wall
- Southeast
- Northeast
- The Land of Dreams
- Graphic Novel: You Write It
- The Time Travel Trap
- I.Q.
- Escape from Pyramid X
How have you and your patrons or students been using Ebooks Minnesota this past year? Are you using the collection for class projects and reports, or reading books as a class or group or in a book club? Please drop me a note at fried004@umn.edu to let me know how you've been using Ebooks Minnesota.
