We got some very exciting news from Barnes and Noble a few weeks ago. B&N will begin accepting purchase orders for ebook orders! Right now our People are hashing out the details with Barnes and Noble's People, and I should hear soon when I can make my very first order. I am interested in the new Simple Nooks, the latest eInk reader. B&N will assign the Nooks into groups, and then the content can be downloaded via line item PO between me and our purchasing department. I was chosen to be the initial purchaser using this method, and they want to get all the bugs and wrinkles out before presenting it to the entire district.
I plan or order 10 Simple Nooks and load them with the bestsellers the students are craving: The Hunger Games, Son of Neptune, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, etc. I will catalog the books just as I do every other book in our library, but the Nook Books will signify that, for example, The Hunger Games is contained in Nook #3.
I will let the kids check out the Simple Nooks, with permission from their parents/guardians. We already check out Playaways successfully, and some of them are quite expensive.
Several librarians are working on FollettShelf, another way to get eBooks into the hands of our students! More on this later!
