Leveraging Libby: Building Pennsylvania’s First Academic Libby Consortium

Join CRD’s Connect & Communicate Series for a Webinar on
Leveraging Libby: Building Pennsylvania’s First Academic Libby Consortium
November 3, 2026 from 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Frustrated with high ebook costs and Ebook Central’s looming conversion to a “subscription only” model, Librarians from Central Penn College and Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology teamed up to build PA’s first Academic Libby Consortium. The consortium’s shared Libby platform launched in fall of 2025 with 7 college libraries as members. This presentation outlines the process of selecting a vendor and building the consortium, shares marketing strategies used to promote the new platform, and describes what we have learned one year into the process. It will also discuss student reaction to the new platform and ways faculty have integrated Libby resources into their course content.

Register at the following link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ehZU56wyQ_Gnan03-K2p6w

Upon submitting your registration, you will receive an email confirmation that includes details about connecting to the webinar. This is the only notification you will receive. If you do not receive the confirmation email, please contact Elliott Rose at elliott.c.rose@gmail.com.

For this program, you will need speakers or headphones to hear the presenter. Participants are encouraged to ask questions via the chatbox; moderators will monitor the chatbox and facilitate question and response at the end of the panel discussion.

Please continue to share your ideas for programming topics, speakers, or formats with us! If you or someone you know is doing something great in Pennsylvania’s academic libraries, tell us about it! The Connect & Communicate Series of online programming offered by the PaLA College & Research Division aims to help foster a community of academic librarians in Pennsylvania. Please contact Elliott Rose at elliott.c.rose@gmail.com with questions.