eBook & Audio
Bridges is the name of our eBook and audiobook consortium for the Iowa Public Libraries. Is is a contracted service with OverDrive, inc. As a resident of the city of Tiffin or rural Johnson County, your Springmier Community Library card provides you access to eBooks and audiobooks you can enjoy!
Bridges Overdrive can be used both on the computer through the browser version or downloaded via Libby.
Our membership only allows any resident of the city of Tiffin and rural Johnson County to access this service. If you live outside of these areas, please contact your local library.
Getting Started
1) Visit Bridges
You may use Bridges two different ways:
- Using your computer’s browser, visit the Bridges - Overdrive website (https://bridges.overdrive.com/).
- Using the Libby app on your mobile device. The first time you will need to set up your library and enter in your library card number and phone number. If you check the Remember my log in box you shouldn’t have to reenter it every time.
- To use the app, go to whatever app store your phone uses and search “Libby.” The app logo is Purple with a teal book. Download the app – it’s free!
2) Logging In
Either on your phone with the app or on your computer, to login to see books, you’ll need to:
- Select the Springmier Community Library in the scroll down bar - be sure to select the correct Library, matched to our address in Tiffin
- Enter your library card number
3) Finding Books
Browse and select books you want to check out. You can search specific titles, by collection, and by subject. You can also filter by what's "available now" to see titles with no wait time.
- If a book is checked out, you can place a hold on it and will receive an email when it is available to you to check out.
Click on Borrow to check out a book.
Once books are checked out, they will go to your account on your bookshelf. Your account is where you can see your loans and holds. To download a book you’ve checked out, go to your loans – from there you may download.
When you download a book - either an ebook or audio - it will save to your phone in the Libby app. To read or listen, you’ll go to the Libby app and click on the title in your account. When you exit, it will save your place.
Most ebooks are available in both Kindle and ePub formats. You may download and read an ePub in the Libby App. Kindle books are for reading on a Kindle or Kindle Reading app. Not all books are available in the Kindle format.
Each account can have any FIVE materials checked out & TEN materials on hold at any one time.
If you ever need any assistance accessing our online books, please call, email, or ask a library staff member, and we will help!