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SACRAMENTO PUBLIC LIBRARY'S EREADER
PROJECT
Check out eReaders!
Michael Stern Hart (1947-2011)
Founder of Project Gutenberg and inventor of the eBook
Photo credit and obituary: http://worldlibrary.net/blog/post/2011/09/08/In-loving-memory-of-Michael-S-Hart-(1947-2011).aspx
Thank you for supporting this project!
Denise Davis, Deputy Library Director
Amy Calhoun, Electronic Resources Librarian
Megan Wong, Technology Librarian
Manya Shorr, Outreach & Community Services
Joseph Spink, Library Services Assistant
WHAT'S THE DEAL?
Digital divide
eBook interest on the rise
Ease (or difficulty) of use
SACRAMENTO PUBLIC LIBRARY
• 1.4 million residents
• 28 locations (1 bookmobile)
• $3 million collection budget (falling fast)
• Subscribe to Overdrive (3,500 eBooks)
• Weekly Book a Librarian appointments for eReader help (200 people in 12 months)
THE GRANT (OR, FREE MONEY IS NEVER FREE)
$100,000 LSTA
Partnership
Preloaded
Assessment
HOWDY, PARTNER
THE COLLECTIO
N
Devices & ContentProgram Launch: April
2011
• 108 Classic Nooks - Circulating
• 30 Classic Nooks – Staff Training
• 20 titles / device
September 2011
• 306 Nooks - Circulating
• 168 Nook Touch
• 138 Nook Classic
• 10 Nook Touch -Replacements
• 50 titles / device
6 NOOKS : 1 TITLE
Fiction
Biography
Mystery
Science Fiction
NonfictionLucky
Day
Romance
Children & Teen
SpanishBestsellers
Urban Fiction
TITLE SELCTIONTitle Author Notes
BestsellerThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Larsson, Stieg Millenium TrilogyA Red Herring Without Mustard Bradley, Alan Flavia de Luce Series 9th Judgment Patterson, James Women's Murder Club
ContemporaryPort Mortuary Cornwell, PatriciaTell No One Coben, HarlanNaked Heat Castle, Richard Nikki Heat SeriesThe Long Fall Mosley, Walter
CozyDeath of a Chimney Sweep Beaton, M.C.A Great Deliverance George, ElizabethStill Life Penny, Louise Aramand Gamache series
HistoricalThe Alienist Carr, CalebMedicus Downie, RuthWilliam Monk Mysteries: The First Three Novels Perry, AnneWhat Angels Fear Harris, C.S. Sebastian St. Cyr Mysteries
ParanormalDead in the Family Harris, Charlaine Sookie Stackhouse series
ThrillerThe Bride Collector Dekker, TedThe Devotion of Suspect X Higashino, Keigo
Genre Holds 4/18/11
(launch week, 108 Nooks)
Holds 8/22/2011
(final week, 245 Nooks)
Holds:Nookratio
Best Seller 78 248 7.1
Biography 21 90 5.0
Children 19 144 8.0
Fiction 48 192 10.7
Mystery 47 111 4.6
Nonfiction 29 181 10.1
Romance 16 106 8.8
Science Fiction 25 120 6.7
Spanish 6 13 2.2
Teen 20 140 11.7
Urban Fiction 12 71 11.8
Total 321 1416 5.8
STAFF TRAINING & CIRCULATION
Staff Training•All front line staff trained
•6 training sessions /6 different locations
•Circulation procedures
•Basic Nook functions
•Branch Nooks for staff
•Point person for staff questions
•Accessible information
Circulation•Pre-circulation issues
• Security
• Forms
• Check-out period
• Renewals
• Damage
• Late fees
• Special rules
Troubleshooting•Broken Nooks
•Transporting devices
•Navigating classic Nook user interface
•“Frozen” Nooks: factory reset or user error?
•Issues with the devices
•Touch v. Classic
ASSESSMENT
Surveys
InterviewsFocus
groups
Public Comments• I was excited to be able to try it. I've been wanting to try an e-
reader, but didn't want to commit to buying one without seeing how they actually work. Thanks for making it available.
• I was dead set against buying an e-reader, but trying it out through you guys make me really want one now! Also, I really
wish I could load things to the e-reader...you guys, should think about a graphic novel one.
• The nook is very convenient because it has more than one
story in it. There's no need to get a bag for 20 different books, and its much easier to keep up with one item.
• Due to replacement cost of $250 should something happen to
the nook I am very hesitant to borrow one from the library again. I have an iPad and will explore eBooks for that instead.
• Such a long wait time. Make more available.
(More comments will be available in the final report.)
WHAT'S NEXT?
We own the content/archivi
ng
The refresh challenge
Serving special
populations
User driven content
Legacy devices
Policies & procedures
Final report to the California State Library: http://www.saclibrary.org/ereader
(available soon!)
Please contact us with questions!
Denise Davis, Deputy Library [email protected]
Amy Calhoun, Electronic Resources [email protected]
Megan Wong, Technology [email protected]
Manya Shorr, Outreach & Community Services [email protected]
Joseph Spink, Library Services [email protected]
