[LM_NET] QUERY: eBook purchasing and checkouts

[Shannon Wham <sdeanwham@CHARTER.NET>]

Question for the collective genius. I often have put paperbacks or hardbacks I've 
purchased or won at conferences in my collection at school after reading them. 
That's a pretty acceptable practice, I'm sure.

Now, I have a 40-45 minute commute one way, so I'm getting book download 
certificates for Christmas. My question is this: can I donate those downloaded 
eBooks to my collection as well? I figure I could transport them on my MP3 player 
to school and store them on a school computer or on my 200GB portable hard drive 
and load them on a student's MP3 player for checkout. I may even purchase some 
players for checkout as well.

Does anyone see any pitfalls in this program and / or has anyone tried this at your 
library?
--
Shannon D. Wham, Librarian
Bell Street MS
600 Peachtree St.
Clinton, SC 29325
sdwham@laurens56.k12.sc.us
sdeanwham@charter.net

"Id temporis consilium bonum videbatur"

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