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0:00 Okay, so ideally at this point you have added your Palm Desert Library card to the account, but we have a really cool feature where we have partner libraries. It is a bunch of other libraries about 10 or so that you can access their ecatalog with our cards. So you don't have to get a card from each individual library. And this is great um for popular books or maybe we don't carry a book but we'll find that one of our partners does. Now Libby is great because you can have multiple libraries under one account. You will however have to add each one individually. So there's a couple of ways to do this. One is you can pick up a card from us. We have this little card you can take and it lists each of the
0:45 partner libraries by name where you can type them in searching for the library. But I'm also going to show you another trick that you can do. So, you're going to press that center button at the bottom with the lines. That's your basically your home base for your account. You'll see here your libraries, Palm Desert Library is already there, but we want to add a partner library, right? So, we're going to go back to and click add library. So, there's manage cards and then there's add library. You're going to tap on that. And you'll see that again Palm Desert is one library that you have. Now, let's say you don't know what the partner libraries are. You didn't get one of the cards, anything like that. You can start typing in Palm Desert
1:34 and you will see that we're not the only matching library in this case. You're going to see a few others and those are all of our partner libraries. So, you just type in Palm Desert Library and you're going to see these partner libraries. So, you have already added Palm Desert. So, we're going to just add the next one in line, Alhamra. So, I'm going to tap on it. And now things are a little bit different in this case. You are going to hit sign in with my card. But you're not going to use a Morart card or an Alhamra card card, right? Because you use Palm Desert Library. So, you see where it says partner libraries? You're actually going to tap Palm Desert Library. Once you've tapped that, you're going to add the card number again.
2:24 >> [snorts] >> Now, if you're adding all of these in one sitting, you do have to do them individually. So, something I did when I added mine was if you double tap on the screen, if you double tap on the number, or if you hold it down on most phones, you'll be able to copy this number. So, that'll save you retyping um for the next time. So, [clears throat] now we're going to hit next. The PIN is usually four digits. So, I don't worry about that one as much. That's a quick thing to type. And then I'm going to hit sign in. Victory. So, you see here another library card. That means you were successful. Again, if something was wrong with the process, in that case, it's usually an incorrect PIN or a typo somewhere along the way. You will not
3:10 see a card there. You'll see a message that is going to explain why it didn't go through. And you're going to hit next. And now you see the circle at the top that is showing you Alhamra's library. If you tap on that, you will now see your two libraries, right? So you have this is the one you're in, but I want to go back to Palm Desert. So under my libraries is Palm Desert. I can tap that. And now you see that circle in the top corner. Now I'm in Palm Desert Library. So that just shows you what library you're in at any given time. So when you're searching through a catalog, you know, but there's some other really cool things once you have all your partner partner libraries added where you can u search for a book and it will show you the status of that book in multiple libraries in your account. So
3:57 we'll do one more. We're going to go back to the middle, add a library, start typing in Palm Desert, and the next one in line is Huntington Beach. So again, sign in with my card. And this is where you want to be careful that you're tapping the right place. You're going to tap Palm Desert Library because that is the card that you're using. So that was me typing individually, but I also want to show you what you can do. Remember I had copied it. If I just hold down you'll see
4:43 paste. So I had pressed my finger lightly kind of for an extra second. And if I hit paste, there you go. The whole library card number pops up. So that will save me time when I'm adding each library. So we're going to hit next. Put in the PIN, hit sign in, and success. Because again, we see a card. That means it went through. So now I've got three libraries on this account. So eventually when you come here, you're going to see if you go down the whole line and add all of our partner libraries, this line will get much longer and you're going to see multiple libraries. And now you're able to use our card to access their cataloges, not just ours.
