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Ohio middle school deploys library kiosk

An Ohio school has installed a library kiosk for browsing e-books at Olentangy Liberty Middle School, funded by the Olentangy Education Foundation.

January 5, 2015

An Ohio school has installed a library kiosk for browsing e-books at Olentangy Liberty Middle School, funded by the Olentangy Education Foundation, according to an article on ThisWeek News.

Since deployment of the Books to Go kiosk, the middle school considers itself a miniature branch of the Delaware County District Library, the article said. Olentangy Middle School librarian Mary Burkey got the idea for the e-book and audiobook kiosk after attending a digital media conference in 2013. The touchscreen station enables users to browse the library's collection of digital works and request titles to download.

"I was like, this would be perfect in my library -- to be able to have basically a little mini-branch of the public library here in my school library," Burkey said in the article.

The Olentangy Education Foundation received Burkey's grant and approved the $1,850 project. The kiosk was installed in November and connected to the Delaware County District Library and to the Ohio Digital Library Collection.