The ISC is now offering six Kindle ereaders for circulation. Many thanks to Annette Arnot who has become our resident expert on ereaders and has spent many many hours locating and uploading the titles and then cataloguing them so that they can be found in OPAC. They have been purchased so as to provide our students the opportunity to read on a device that they otherwise might not be able to access and to also provide them with an alternative mode of reading.
Five of the ereaders represent a particular genre and presently store 20 novels on each device. One ereader is dedicated to staff usage. Each Kindle has the capacity to store 1500 titles and so from little things big things will hopefully grow.Students and staff will be able to request specific titles via the Kindle ebook request form available from the ISC.The Kindles may be used at school or at home and the loan period is one week.Students will need a checkout permission form which is to be signed by a guardian before they can borrow a Kindle.
The ISC is pleased to be able to offer this service and entrust that our school community will enjoy this new way of reading and will be responsible with regards to the care of these ereaders.We look forward to hearing student feedback on their experiences with the Kindles and their input will guide us in how we promote reading and cater for the needs of all of our students in the future.
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