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OverDrive to sunset legacy app for Fire tablets
December 2, 2024
As part of their transition to the Libby app, OverDrive are to sunset their legacy OverDrive app for Fire tablets on January 31, 2025. After this date, the legacy OverDrive app sunset will be complete on all platforms. Users with Fire tablets running Android 9 or higher can install the Libby app instead.
Access to OverDrive audiobook content
November 18, 2024
OverDrive now offers web-streaming access to audio books via the Libby web platform or OverDrive website (use “Listen in browser”). Downloads for offline listening using Libby's mobile app available for supported Android, iOS, or Amazon Fire devices.
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Contains more than 70,000 pages of curated documents, video and audio recordings. Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820 explores prominent themes related to conquest, colonization, settlement, resistance, and post-coloniality, as told through women’s voices.
Qwest TV preserves diverse live performances, covering the evolution of jazz and beyond — representing funk, soul, hip-hop, folk, indie, electronic, blues, and other eclectic world genres. Co-created by Quincy Jones & Reza Ackbaraly, this unique collection of highly curated titles makes timeless concerts and global music accessible for research, teaching, and learning.
Collection is migrating permanently from Accessible Archives to History Commons. Publications included: The Canadian Observer, The Christian Recorder; The Colored American; Frederick Douglass’ Paper; The Freedmen’s Record; Frederick Douglass Monthly; Freedom’s Journal; The National Era; The Negro Business League Herald; The North Star; Provincial Freeman; Weekly Advocate.
The Olympic Movement presents a documentary record of the origins, expansion and growth of the Olympic Games, and the global history of sport. Through a broad range of sources including correspondence, official reports, newsletters and film footage, researchers can chart the history of sport and its relationships with culture, society, business, media and politics between the 1890s and 1990s.
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