Neit2009+Open+Space+2D

Open Space2 - D-Rock Room

Led by Angela Carstensen, Librarian - Convent of the Sacred Heart

Churchill School - using Kindle for text to speech, like making font larger, more comfortable taking notes, see text while they hear it, students using their own Kindles, looking to buy a set for a pilot program, books purchased through English department, publishers required to provide digital textbooks for learning disabled students Brooklyn Friends - 6 Kindles and 25 ipod touches registered on shared account (no extra fee right now), everyone has same note file if sharing Kindles, can prevent access to archived books so you can manage what books they can read Friends Academy - 2 circulating Kindles, added to the catalog //way to track circulation?//
 * Handheld e-readers**

Collegiate - using electronic textbook for chemistry any pdf or text document can be read Convent of the Sacred Heart - eventually the school will provide e-readers pilot program at 20 universities testing textboooks on e-readers //standardization of e-book format needed// //putting together packets of chapters and digital resources instead of full textbooks//
 * E-readers as textbooks**

Gale e-books Collegiate - using Gale, advantage is the number of copies accessible, still have to be vigilant and know what to recommend, method of delivery is irrelevant, working to put them in the catalog Convent of the Sacred Heart - takes 10 minutes to download the marc records of the e-books into the catalog, looking into ebrary Friends Academy - using Questia, 360 books were viewed last year ebrary - quick plugin, good content, a little behind in currency, good note taking feature, 47000 books (not old out of print books), can buy subject collections, nonfiction material for research, $5500 a year, records are a little buggy, no limit to simultaneous users net library - one user at a time questia - requires individual user name and password, create own bibliography, good functionality, nice company, computer only acls humanities e-book collection - small but people love it, $300 a year, computer only //other web based e-book packages?//
 * Reference collections of e-books**

Thanks to Kerry Roeder, Brearley, for posting these notes!