{"id":536082,"date":"2026-07-06T17:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/536082\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T17:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:27:09","slug":"nl-public-libraries-trying-to-reduce-wait-times-on-libby-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/536082\/","title":{"rendered":"NL Public Libraries Trying to Reduce Wait Times on Libby App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/library-books-edit.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"NL Public Libraries Trying to Reduce Wait Times on Libby App\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Some changes have been made to the NL Public Libraries\u2019 e-library app in hopes of reducing waitlists for certain materials.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in August, the number of books users can put on hold in the Libby app\u00a0will be reduced to\u00a010 from 30.<\/p>\n<p>Emma Craig, regional librarian for St. John\u2019s, says ideally the changes will force users to be more selective with the books they put on hold, and free up space for someone else who may have been waiting a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Craig hopes the changes will encourage readers to go through their hold-lists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all forget the books we put on hold,\u201d said Craig. \u201cEven I\u2019m guilty of that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Some changes have been made to the NL Public Libraries\u2019 e-library app in hopes of reducing waitlists&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[61,60,222384,202,151325,222381,222383,222385,222382,80,222378,222379,222380],"class_list":["post-536082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-mobile","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-technology","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}