Chile: Simply Point, Click, and Read! Digital Book Loan Points Open in Three Santiago Metro Stations
From The Santiago Times:
Chile’s first digital Bibliometro has added three new loan points to the 20 existing points in the network, which since its creation in 1996 has lent more than five million books to more than 55 thousand active users.
The Inés de Suárez, Nuñoa and Cerrillos stations on Line 6 of the Metro now have new loan points with book dispensing machines, under the self-care modality. New reading spaces include downloads of digital books for mobile phones and tablets through QR code scanning.
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Filed under: Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
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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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