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The article offers information on the audiobooks in libraries and advice for any librarian trying to build or improve their audiobook collection. Topics discussed include opportunity for libraries to serve readers who would rather listen on their mobile devices; promoting audiobooks with all this information about the current popularity in audiobooks; and viewing narrators as simply another piece of metadata. Also mentions about audiobook review sources.

The article focuses on the Downloadable Audiobooks project of the Washington State Library (WSL), which aims toward the goal of Library Development Program to expand information access formats in all types of libraries. It says that libraries were provided with subscriptions to low cost downloadable audiobook or eAudiobook packages in which the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funding was used. WSL introduced a public portal web site in April 2010 for the promotion of the project.