{"id":104,"date":"2005-03-04T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-05T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/03\/04\/tuning-in-at-the-library\/"},"modified":"2005-03-04T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-05T02:00:00","slug":"tuning-in-at-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/03\/04\/tuning-in-at-the-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuning In at the Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/em>
\n This
\n story has almost everything we look for in a good blog posting.  It
\n features an innovative use of one of our favorite technologies, libraries
\n and librarians, and a money-saving move by a public institution. Everything,
\n that is, except an opportunity to feature a little artfully exposed flesh.
\n So we decided to exercise a little creative licence, at the end of the
\n story…
\n <\/em>
\nChecking out a new iPod now applies to more than shopping trips or web browsing.
\n This week the South Huntington Public Library on Long Island, New York, became
\n one of the first public libraries in the country to loan out iPod
\n shuffles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For the past three weeks, the library ran a pilot program using the portable
\nMP3 devices to store audio books downloaded from the Apple iTunes Music Store.
\nThey started with six shuffles, and now are up to a total of 10. Each device
\nholds a single audio book.<\/p>\n

"It’s changed the books on tape from a car-only
\n experience to a bring-it-with-you experience," according to library
\n patron Sonia Dora McGillicutty (see photo), who has been listening to
\n the library’s Shuffle of Azar Nafisi’s
\n Reading Lolita in Tehran<\/em> to unwind from the stress of her job
\n as a software engineer.<\/p>\n

The article doesn’t mention what, if any, anti-copying
\n protection the iPods have. Perhaps they rely on old-fashioned good faith,
\n which seem to work out just fine for the books and other materials they
\n lend. Could they also "loan" the digital files themselves to people who
\n already own iPods?<\/em><\/p>\n

adapted from Wired
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