{"id":373,"date":"2012-01-09T15:57:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T15:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scla.net\/cats\/?p=373"},"modified":"2012-01-09T15:57:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T15:57:47","slug":"tablet-lending-and-public-use-discussion-scls-thursday-january-12-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scla.net\/cats\/tablet-lending-and-public-use-discussion-scls-thursday-january-12-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Tablet Lending and Public Use Discussion @ SCLS &#8211; Thursday &#8211; January 12, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This is the mobility meeting you have all been waiting for!!! Come and hear best practices, what worked, what didn&#8217;t work, and how one of the island&#8217;s leading libraries has instituted tablet lending for in-house public use. Ask the questions you have always wondered about and get some refreshingly new ideas on how this technology can be used in a public library setting.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>How NSPL has integrated iPads into their collection. The Children\u2019s Reference and Adult\u2019s Reference departments at NSPL have recently started loaning out iPads in-house to patrons. Come see the reasons why they did it, what pitfalls they encountered and how they were addressed. What\u2019s to come in the\u00a0future\u00a0for mobile computing in libraries?<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">We will be discussing cost, staff involvement, durability, security, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ruth Westfall, Administrator for Technology Services at SCLS, will also be discussing and demonstrating the Live-brary mobile app.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Where: Suffolk Cooperative Library System<br \/>\nWhen: Thursday, January 12, 2012<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Time: 9:30 coffee 10 am Meeting<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">Directions:\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/scls.suffolk.lib.ny.us\/directions.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/scls.<wbr>suffolk.lib.ny.us\/directions.<wbr>html<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">ALL STAFF ARE INVITED TO THIS MEETING &#8211; PUBLIC SERVICES STAFF WILL BENEFIT THE MOST!!!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">Hope to see you all there!!!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">Bob<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the mobility meeting you have all been waiting for!!! Come and hear best practices, what worked, what didn&#8217;t work, and how one of the island&#8217;s leading libraries has instituted tablet lending for in-house public use. Ask the questions you have always wondered about and get some refreshingly new ideas on how this technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings","category-mobile-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scla.net\/cats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scla.net\/cats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scla.net\/cats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scla.net\/cats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scla.net\/cats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scla.net\/cats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/scla.net\/cats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scla.net\/cats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scla.net\/cats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scla.net\/cats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}