UPDATE: WE NO LONGER SUPPORT THE PUBLIC DEVICE LOANS PROGRAM. 9/2012
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April 27 update
- We have 2 new Kindles & 2 Color Nooks, and new cases that hold the power cords.
- They will continue to be loaned only from Hayden and not other desks for now.
- The Music Library is loaning a new iPad (purchased from their own funds) and they'll be the only desk to deal with iPads for now. (they have cascaded their old one internally to one of their own staff, not sure who)
- I gave the new devices to Maria today and Ben A. is working on the catalog records for them. She'll work with him on the details of processing them, getting barcodes, property tags, etc.
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- Stephanie will be drafting a story about this loan program for the news blog.
- The devices contain only public domain titles (and a few titles that MIT Press is making freely available) and I met with Ellen to go over the license agreements for Amazon and Barnes & Noble. So that's all set. I've also updated Steve about it.
- I will set up a small training session in late May for a few of us in Barker, so that once every few months we can borrow them ourselves and do a little maintenance, upgrades, etc. (taking the burden off of circ staff)
So that's where we are! Hopefully by (or before) the end of May these new devices will be in circulation.
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