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You actually might be surprised to see how many of our fixed income "olders" come into the library with the digital readers they've received as gifts.
We were discussing a "Donate your Old Reader" drive at the last Friends meeting to try and get more hardware into the library. I think we have 8 Sony readers right now and maybe 5 nooks and they are constantly checked out. We also have a download station at the library for those without internet access and several staff members trained to actually use it. I can't remember exactly but that was either donated by Overdrive or paid for by a grant. We've also been discussing adding Kindles to the mix as well as the viability of establishing a library Amazon purchase account.
Increasing Overdrive fees do seem to be the big topic of the moment. There is a huge interest in digital lending because it is getting really expensive to send the inter-library loan truck all over the place.
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