With Storytime Direct you can deliver our multilingual children's stories to your community by phone and online.
Sign-up to receive a dedicated phone number, to which we assign a story-of-the-week from our Storytime Commons for your listeners.
Patrons can listen by phone or online anytime 24/7, and library staff can track listening stats on our management dashboard.
You can record your own welcome message and add a widget or QR code to your website to make listening online easy for your patrons.
Easy set-up in no time, with very little library staff involvement and no need to call the IT department!
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One-time setup fee: $350
Includes unlimited training and planning consultation.
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Annual subscriptions
Pricing based on library type and service population:
Library Type Annual Subscription Tribal & School Libraries $500 Public Libraries & Consortia — under 100,000 $650 Public Libraries & Consortia — 100,000–300,000 $900 Public Libraries & Consortia — 300,000–500,000 $1,500 Public Libraries & Consortia — over 500,000 $1,500, plus $500 each time population passes another 500,000 For example:Service Population Annual Subscription 500,000 or fewer $1,500 500,001 – 1,000,000 $2,000 1,000,001 – 1,500,000 $2,500 Price steps up as soon as population passes each 500,000 mark — no rounding or proration.Pricing above is for new subscriptions. Existing customers keep their current contract terms. - State & Regional pricing available:
Good to know
- What counts as “service population”?
- The most recent census figure for your county or defined service area (public libraries), or your total student enrollment (tribal & school libraries).
- What counts as a consortium?
- A group of libraries that shares one LibraryCall instance across multiple locations or systems.
