Successfully adding Kindle Fire to Library Collection for Checkout

[Kate Butler]

While the Kindle must have an amazon account, there's nothing that requires an amazon account to have any payment information attached. We don't circulate our Kindle Fire (at the moment) but the amazon account to which it's attached has no credit card or payment information -- it's basically just a dummy account.  This means one-click ordering can't be enabled, so the Fire complains if you try to buy anything, even a free something, directly from the Fire. (You can 'purchase' free apps and books from the website and then download them from the Fire -- so the library would have to pre-load anything the patron wanted.)

We do the same thing with the iTunes account on the library iPad -- if we ever wanted to purchase something, we'd buy a gift card and use that to load funds.

Kate Butler
Technology Librarian
Rodgers Memorial Library (Hudson, NH)
http://www.rodgerslibrary.org/

From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Doug Cataldo
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 12:04 PM
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I am asking for replies for both side of the coin. We have successfully added regular Kindle devices to our collection for patrons to check out. However the Kindle Fire relies upon an active amazon account. If you were to circulate a Kindle Fire or have done it successfully, I would like to know how you did it without allowing the patron that checks out the device to utilize the active Amazon account.

In simpler terms, how do you stop the person(s) checking out the Kindle Fire from purchasing books on the active account that the Kindle Fire has to have. Does that make sense?

Doug Cataldo
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Huntley Area Public Library
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From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU]<mailto:[mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU]> On Behalf Of Sharon Foster
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 10:51 AM
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Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Successfully adding Kindle Fire to Library Collection for Checkout

Are you asking a cataloging question or a policy question?

There are at least a couple of ways to catalog it so that patrons can find it, but the pros and cons will depend on how your OPAC displays search results lists and individual items.

For example, go to http://www.ryepubliclibrary.org and type in the word "kindle" in the top search box.

The search results show only the last item added to the Kindle, but if you click on one of them, you'll see a list of the contents. Click on the "MARC Display" button to see how the 505 Note and 700 Added entry fields are populated.

Try a title search for "The Help" and the last two results are Kindle I and Kindle II, but the title shown is not "The Help." You have to see the item detail to find that "The Help" is indeed there.

You may have to try some experiments with your OPAC to find the best way to catalog an e-reader. Also look at the MARC displays for other libraries that have the same ILS and that have cataloged e-readers to see how they did it.

Hope this helps,
Sharon
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Sharon M. Foster
Digital Resources Librarian

"All accumulation, therefore, of personal property, beyond what a man's own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle of justice, of gratitude, and of civilization, a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came." ~Tom Paine

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Doug Cataldo <DCataldo at huntleylibrary.org<mailto:DCataldo at huntleylibrary.org>> wrote:
Has anyone had success adding a Kindle Fire device to your library's catalog for checkout to patrons?

I'd love to hear pros/cons.

Thanks!

Doug Cataldo
Marketing & Technology Specialist
Huntley Area Public Library
11000 Ruth Road
Huntley, IL 60142
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