Hall libraries: A new way to access books

There’s a new way, digitally, to access books through the Hall County Library System (HCLS): The Palace Project app.

The Palace Project is a new, non-profit platform that puts libraries at the forefront of the econtent landscape, according to platform’s website. “Palace supports the mission of libraries by providing equitable access to digital knowledge, bolstering the relationship between libraries and patrons, respecting patron privacy, and enabling libraries to serve all their econtent in a single app.”

Funded by a $5 million investment from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The Palace Project is a division of Lyrasis working in strategic partnership with Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).

With the app you instantly gain free access to thousands of eBooks and audiobooks, the library system writes on its Facebook page.

Click here to find out how to download the app:

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About the Author

Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.

Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.

He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.