Canada: E-books High in Demand at Halifax Libraries, Having to Divert More Money into E-Book Purchases
Halifax public libraries have seen a huge spike in the number of people borrowing e-books, so the they’re now shopping for tablets and e-readers to train librarians to manage the demand.
The libraries are shopping for 40 new devices — iPads, BlackBerry PlayBooks, and Sony e-readers. They’ll be used to train staff to answer questions about how e-readers work.
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Though e-books are electronic, the cost of e-books is placing a strain on the library’s resources
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But the library said it has already had to divert more money into e-books this year than it planned.
In the last year, it spent about $120,000 on e-books and audiobooks — the library estimates about 80 per cent of that figure was on e-books.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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