G4techTV - Feature - Libraries Enter Digital Age: "Remember how exciting it was as a child to go into the library to fill out an application for your very own library card amid shelves and shelves of books waiting to be read? Nowadays, going to the library is a digital experience.
In Seattle, residents can search the King County Library System website for the latest audio book titles and then order them online. They can then borrow an MP3 player and download the book for 28 days.
Seattle is one of three library systems testing this new program. Bruce Schauer, associate director of King County Library, said success would depend on user interest.
'We can reduce the costs of ordering, receiving, and processing the physical content for audio books in the traditional format, because in this case, we don't have to put any kind of code on it (like a spine label), house it, and reshelve it, that sort of thing,' Shauer said.
There are 20 titles available now, and the library plans to add at least eight more a month from archives supplied by Audible.com. "
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
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