Posted by Amy Christman on October 23, 2009 at 7:59am
My library has 33 Kindles - don't ask where the $$ came from, because I'm just not sure :) I was wondering if anyone had them and if so if you had a policy/procedure on how you check them out. Also, does anyone have an easy way to catalog the books that are on them?
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Don't know if you saw it when I posted awhile back, but I've also got a list of e- books that are available for free at the middle school and high school level. I cross-checked reading lists I found online with e-books in the public domain and made two nice charts: Public Domain E-Books
We've been ciculating 6 Kindles for a few months. First, we have the students take home and have signed a permission form that we adapted from Buffy Hamilton. Then we add an asterisk to thier name in Circulation so that we know they have permission.
We use Mandarin, so I just created a simple resord for the Kindles (Kindle#1, etc.) and in the 300 tag (description), listed the books downloaded on it. I also went into the records for the print books (like "Mark of Athena") and added the Kindle in the holding. That way, when studenst are looking for a title on OPAC, the print edition comes up and any and all Kindles that the title is on will show up too.
Does your library database have an virtual bookshelf? I use Destiny and Follet has a virtual shelf and that's where ours are stored. I'm not sure if we can add to them from another source. Where did the books come from? Amazon?
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There's a free software program called Calibre that manages e-books and is very configurable. I've written up tutorials on it here: http://www.auntlee.com/drupal/?q=Basic-E-Book-Tutorial
Don't know if you saw it when I posted awhile back, but I've also got a list of e- books that are available for free at the middle school and high school level. I cross-checked reading lists I found online with e-books in the public domain and made two nice charts: Public Domain E-Books
We've been ciculating 6 Kindles for a few months. First, we have the students take home and have signed a permission form that we adapted from Buffy Hamilton. Then we add an asterisk to thier name in Circulation so that we know they have permission.
We use Mandarin, so I just created a simple resord for the Kindles (Kindle#1, etc.) and in the 300 tag (description), listed the books downloaded on it. I also went into the records for the print books (like "Mark of Athena") and added the Kindle in the holding. That way, when studenst are looking for a title on OPAC, the print edition comes up and any and all Kindles that the title is on will show up too.
Hope that helps!
Does your library database have an virtual bookshelf? I use Destiny and Follet has a virtual shelf and that's where ours are stored. I'm not sure if we can add to them from another source. Where did the books come from? Amazon?
I would also like this information.