St. Paul Public Library To Begin Testing 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Terminals This Week
From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:
The St. Paul Public Library will become a beta testing site for a new electronic book lending service on Wednesday.
The 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Service will allow patrons to check out books on their own electronic devices or borrow such devices from the library to use at home.
The 3M system includes more than 100,000 titles from 40 publishers including Random House, Sourcebooks and IPG. 3M terminals with touch screens will help library patrons browse the digital collection. Digital readers also are synchronized with the library system.
See Also: eBook Usage Soars at St. Paul Libraries, But it’s Still a Small Fraction of Book Lending (January 4. 2012)
See Also: “3M Branches Out with e-Readers for St. Paul Public Libraries” (July 2011)
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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.