Pilot Project: Ottawa Public Will Soon Be First Canadian Public Library to Offer Chromebooks
From the Ottawa Public Library:
The Ottawa Public Library (OPL) will be the first public library in Canada to offer Chromebooks to its customers. OPL is launching a pilot project on June 10that will see 30 of the new laptops distributed to six branches for customer use
Chromebooks are lightweight, maintenance free secure laptops that are ideal for catching up on email, creating and editing documents, reading the latest news and of course researching and surfing the web. Customers at the Alta Vista, Carlingwood, Greely, Nepean Centrepointe, Rideau and St-Laurent branches will be able to check out a Chromebook for two hours at a time in the branch.
“This is a great addition to our collection” said Craig Ginther, Manager of Digital Services at the Library. “We are providing a tool to those who don’t necessarily have a laptop or smart device of their own to use in our branches for free.”
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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.