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Public libraries’ policies are evolving with e-books. (Kansas City Star, 5/30/2011)
Excerpt: It’s news to a lot of folks, but many public libraries here and across the country offer digital books that can be read on such devices as a Nook or, with the right app, a smartphone. The potential is enormous: book-borrowing without the physical limits. Any book, any time, right?
“Some of the waiting lists are long,” said Adam Wathen, collection development manager at Johnson County Library. It’s the same at Kansas City Public Library, director Crosby Kemper III said.
And most everywhere else. One digital library advocate found a waiting list of 127 for an e-copy of a book about chess champion Bobby Fischer at the New York Public Library.
Public library collections are mainly made up of physical books, of course, but libraries have begun contracting with e-book suppliers for loaning digital books. The way the system works now, a copy of an e-book, just like a physical book, can be loaned out one at a time.
But along with music and movies in the young digitized world, the handling, so to speak, of digital books is in flux.
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