U n i ve r s i t y L i b ra r i e s

Sony Project in the Press

Lending and First Year Seminar

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Content Read by Students

Required Class Text

Other Titles on the Reader

Time Spent Reading (weekly minutes)Number of Responses to Weekly Time Spent Reading

Where Students Used the Sony Reader

In My DormSitt ing OutsideOn the BusIn the Library

Student Activities while Using Sony Reader

Reading Only

Text Messaging

Talking on the Phone

Instant Messaging

Web Surfi ng

EatingListening to Music

I like the fact that you can store a lot of books in a compact unit, and flip between them at your leisure. I also like that you can flip many, many, many pages before the battery runs down. Unit is comfortable to hold, once you have gotten used to it. Screen is comfortable to read, except in direct light, due to glare.

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Technical ChallengesThe Challenge:Sony’s eReader model allows for a single computer to hold one eLibrary with no more than five associated readers. The Penn State University Libraries current Sony project involves 100 Readers. Our challenge was to find a way to efficiently load 100 readers with a va-riety of titles without the need for 20 individual com-puters.

The Solution: Virtual Machinesused VM Ware Workstation•created nine virtual machines on each of two dedicat-•ed PCstotal of 20 separate machines (including the physi-•cal machines themselves)individual IP address and an external internet connec-•tionone eLibrary and five associated readers per machine •mapped to space on the Libraries server to hold the •Libraries. a single PSULIAS mailbox with 20 aliases -all for-•warded to a single email address accessible by a single login