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Library patrons ask around e books daily, interim Kern State Library Director Sherry Gomez told the actual Board of Supervisors The following thursday.
Now that OverDrive, a business that vends e books to library systems, has connected with Amazon to give content to Kindle users, it is time for Kern County's library system to help sign on, Gomez said.
The Catalogue Foundation has committed $36,A thousand over the next two years to obtain the technology platform and the privileges for library users to check out the most popular new releases and major book titles.
That is the whole cost of the effort, Gomez explained.
"Based on the evidence in the professional journals, e books are just starting off," Gomez said.
Library card holders who own a Amazon kindle, Nook or iPad would all be able to sign on to the Kern Local Library Web page, navigate in an e book section and "check out" an electronic version of the book of their preference on their mobile e visitor.
If the Nike High Heels Uk book is already tested because copies of the guide would be limited the user will be put onto a patiently waiting list to receive the material, much like if they tried to check out a printed of the book at a selection branch, Gomez said.
"It gives us 12 months to get the word out and another year to see how people are using it," Gomez mentioned of the two year plan.
Have on Murfin, president of the Kern County Catalogue Foundation, said the e-book assistance the foundation gave Fake Ray Bans Uk appeared to be aimed at meeting the targets library staff have developed.
"The stockpile staff has been working on it for a long time and has been very concerned with keeping up with technology," he explained.
The Library Foundation likewise chipped in $67,000 to take four self check out gas stops to the Beale Memorial Library.
Gomez stated three stations are being invested in and will be placed at the main check out counter while the 4th will be installed in the av section.
The stations permits library patrons to swipe their own library card and the e-book, DVD or CD they need to borrow without waiting in what things can at times be long strains at the counter.
The do-it-yourself service stations will also reduce pressures on a library staff members that has been thinned by years of budget cuts, Gomez said, and allow them to focus Louis Vuitton Bags on checking in returned titles, pulling materials to get library transfer and other responsibilities.
"We thought it would be a really good approach to help the library staff to deliver services. They're spread relatively thin," Murfin said.
And also Beale Memorial Library plus the free airline Bakersfield and Ridgecrest branches are all when or have recently acquired a wireless hot spot.
That will allow people to deliver their own computers to the catalogue and, hopefully, ease the demand for computer Ralph Lauren Canada stations, Gomez explained.
Gomez said the foundation's help continues to be critical to making the changes.
"We value everything they are doing to move forwards," she said. "We've want to do these types of things for a long time."
"We want the stockpile to be on the forefront of being responsive to needs in 2012 in addition to beyond," Supervisor Nancy Goh, who praised Gomez for the progress made, said Tuesday.
Goh mentioned innovation is a goal superiors are giving all district departments.
"We have less money currently and I feel through the imagination of the staff here and ideas that come in from the group, we can figure out how to provide products and services at an even higher level in spite of the difficulties in the economy."
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