Ken Weil & Joe Latini, South Huntington Beach Public Library
- First public library to circulate iPod shuffles!
- Started with a collection of 29 titles
- Starting to do music on the iPods (marketing to younger patrons)
- Why?
- Downloading cheaper than purchasing cassettes and CDs
- $1616 on cassette vs. $695 from iTunes for the first 29 titles
- Savings used to buy the iPods
- No replacement costs for tapes & CDs
- Titles available sooner
- Conserve shelf space
- More portable
- Licencing varies from company to company (iTunes, OverDrive, Recorded Books)
- There is no single good solution
- Why iPods?
- iTunes = library now ownes the item, others you need to repurchase on a schedule
- Downloading items via dialup is not viable, therefore circing the iPods
- Can import from existing Books on CD
- iPods popular
- Work with both Mac & Windows
- Universal access (no patron computer needed)
- (iTunes gets their titles from Audible.com)
- Copyright issues
- SHPL limits circ to the number of copies that the library ownes
- Apple knows what they’re doing
- Purchasing
- iTunes ccount (CC or debit account)
- software
- search
- download
- store files on server (central location for downloader & desk where iPods are checked out)
- backup each title
- Cataloging
- Equipment: iPod Shuffles (They now have 20)
- Titles: eAudio books (original cataloging)
- Order Record (title, iTunes listed as publisher)
- Bib record (replaces order record)
- Material type
- Pushed on the front page of the Web site
- Catalog says “Required iPod Shuffle or other MP3 player” on these titles
- Processing
- title card w/ barcode
- contents card with iPod barcode
- CArying case
- iPod
- power adaptor
- radio transmitter
- audiocassette adapter
- user’s guide
- aux input connector
- [M: Way sweet! Don’t make them use headphones]
- Circulation
- check out titles and equipment
- loan rules
- 2 weeks
- no ILL or DA
- restricted to district residents
- $1/day overdue (they’ve been circing laptops for the past five years without any problems)
- borrowing terms & conditions
- Waiver form
- Will also load titles on to borrower’s iPods, form indicates that loading library titles will erase all items on the iPod.
- Newer software and iPods are reducing this problem
- User Survey Results
- 46% borrow 2-3 times/month, 26% once/week
- 48% listen in car, 19% in portable player w/ headphones
- 35% prefer fiction, 29% new or bestsellers
- ever borrowed? 81% no
- 73% male
- age 30% 55-64, 21% 45-54
- What’s new?
- Circing music on iPods
- Developing YA collection
- audio books & music
- selected by young adults
- Art exhibits audio tour
- Podcasting library programs & events
