Excite Your Community...
With Weekly E-Mail Newsletters Showcasing Your Latest Acquisitions
Newsletter Highlights
- Features the new books, movies, audiobooks, music CDs, and ebooks added to your catalog each week
- Includes only your library’s new titles (instead of generic lists)
- Are emailed out automatically every week
- Requires no staff time
- Allows patrons to customize their newsletters and receive author alerts
- Includes links to reviews, previews, and your catalog
- Optionally features newly-arrived OverDrive emagazines, ebooks, and eaudios, Freading ebooks, and cloudLibrary emagazines
- Reminds patrons every week of the value of libraries and lets them reserve early
- Allows you to feature upcoming events, library news, titles of interest, and more
- Lets you include links to important services and shortcuts
- Mobile version makes for easy reading on small screens
Mobile Newsletter Example
For the full mobile experience, scan the QR code below with your mobile device
What is in the Wowbrary newsletters?
The weekly newsletters show covers, descriptions, ratings, and/or reviews for the preponderance of your new books, DVDs, music CDs, audiobooks, ebooks, and eaudios. Patrons can click directly through to your website to place holds and get further information.
Each email newsletter itself shows up to 20 "Top Choices" items selected for popularity and variety. The issue also directs patrons to additional pages of new items, organized by genre. Patrons with a format preference can choose to see just ebooks/eaudios or just physical copies. Patrons can also customize their weekly newsletter and create author alerts.
Each item description includes the title and a borrow link, plus as available:
- Author or Artist
- Cover
- Synopsis
- Goodreads reader ratings and a link to reader reviews
- Publisher
- Google book preview
- Links to more information on other sites
New Item Example
More Info Example
The newsletters also link to previous editions, so patrons who miss an issue can go back and see new items from prior weeks.
Can I customize the newsletters?
Yes. You can easily customize your newsletters in many ways:
- Promote upcoming events via news items that can include graphics and appear when you want
- Automatically feature new online magazines if you subscribe to OverDrive or cloudLibrary
- Spotlight specific titles by adding reviews or selecting items to be in the Top Choices
- Publicize other library services via links in banners, news items, and menus
- Customize and schedule subject lines up to six months in advance
- Change colors to match your library's look
- Add your own banner graphics using tools we provide
Custom Banner Example
RSS Example
Is there an RSS version?
Yes. Patrons can sign up for RSS-based versions of the newsletter as well as dozens of feeds for individual genres and types of materials.
RSS Feed Examples
Prince William County, VA
Indianapolis, IN
New York City, NY (DVDs)
Can I use the newsletters as new book lists?
Yes. Many libraries link directly from their catalog to our newsletters, which serve as new book lists. You can link to specific genre and format pages as well, such as DVDs and Mysteries. Like everything else in Wowbrary, these pages automatically update each week and provide an excellent way for patrons browsing online to see your latest items.
How do patrons subscribe?
Patrons can subscribe directly through the Wowbrary website and through pages you can customize. You can also quickly add addresses to the subscriber list. In some towns over 10% of the entire population is signed up for Wowbrary. The many ways to sign up subscribers include:
Graphics Example
- Graphics and links you can place on your library pages
- Sample press releases and publicity materials
- One-step signup by staff when processing library card applications
- En masse enrollment from your own address lists, with a welcome message you customize
How do I learn more?
Just send an email to and let us know the library you represent. We will send you information about the compatibility of your system for Wowbrary
and answer your questions. We look forward to serving your library and community.