Brigham Young University lending Kindles
By Paul Biba
Thanks to Gary Price for the tip on this story. You can find the original here.
Faculty members at Brigham Young University (BYU), Provo, UT, have a new alternative to interlibrary loan (ILL): the Amazon Kindle. The Harold B. Lee Library has purchased three ebook readers for the pilot, expecting the items chosen to be either very new or very popular titles—titles that in some cases the library has been unable to get through ILL.
Brigham Young is one of the first academic libraries to lend Kindles, and while Amazon has told LJ lending is impermissible, its customer service reps have provided more variable advice.
An Amazon rep gave a verbal OK to BYU’s plan, but would not provide a written response, Gerrit van Dyk, the library’s document delivery services manager, told LJ. The rep said that the Terms of Use was sufficient.
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