Here at the Missoula Public Library we've been experimenting with a Netflix-model for getting materials to our patrons. When you place a hold, simply choose the home delivery option for pickup location and we'll do the rest. We pay the postage, this is totally free.
We are able to provide this service as a pilot project for one of our software vendors OCLC. They are looking to provide this service in other parts of the country as well, and they chose us to be their guinea pigs. So give it a shot, it might not always work, but that's why it's a test project right? And if all goes well, we'll iron out the kinks and offer this service all the time, assuming we find a way to fund it independently. I wish I could post up a few screen shots of this in action, but our system is down for the day. So try it out tomorrow and let us know what you think!
2 comments:
Ben,
Glad to see this kind of adoption of the new way of doing media...
Our public library has Music CDs and movie DVDs/Video tapes for check out too. That would be quite awesome to adopt here to. If more people would don't such media, then the issue of media "ownership" by the corporations would be forced to use the Fair Use Model... which is what you have with Libraries....
I'm one of the founding guys from http://www.fairuseday.com site.
We have CDs, DVDs, Videos, and Books on CD/Tape too, and we mail them out the same way.
I love the fair use day concept. I'm behind you all the way!
Ben
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