Well, I found this post on Gerrit van Dyk's Shaping Libraries blog very interesting because my library has just taken the plunge and purchased a Kindle 2. It gives some hope to library checkout of the Kindle, assuming that Amazon is contacted and allows you to do so (given the fluidity of their terms of service agreement).
We're not to the point of checking our Kindle out yet, but we're building to that point and choosing titles.
Is anyone using the Kindle at their libraries? How about the Sony Reader?
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- John J. Burke is the director of the Gardner-Harvey Library on the Middletown regional campus of Miami University. John holds an MSLS from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and a BA in history from Michigan State University. He is the author of the Neal-Schuman Library Technology Companion: a Guide for Library Staff (5th edition, 2016) and Makerspaces: a Practical Guide for Librarians (2014).
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FaceBook has a group called EBook Readers in Libraries that I suggest you take a look at. You might want to join the group to post information about your library and to contact others who are working in this area.
Have you started to loan your Kindle out yet? What is the status of your Kindle program? Thanks.
No, we haven't started loaning our Kindle out yet, but we plan to do so when our fall semester starts. We've purchased about a dozen titles. We're still considering the mechanics of the whole thing - and considering adding an additional Kindle. Overall, the reading experience (which library staff are testing right now) has been excellent and we expect others will enjoy it, too.
Thanks for the info. Keep us updated. Thanks Again.
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