The Spring Hill Library has two cool new programs—borrowing both mobile hot spots and Kindles.
Beginning last month, anyone with a library card can borrow one of the 40-plus hot spots from the Spring Hill Library for up to a week at a time.
Take the device and the internet with you anywhere you go; it will work for a week. There is a one-day grace period before overdue charges begin, but the device stops working after the week. The cost per-day for overdue devices is $3.
There is a limit, however, to two rentals per family per month.
Hot spots are great for things like camping, day trips and any other situation where you will be away from your home and do not want to use up cellular data to surf the web.
Kindles
Also, the library now has 50 Kindle mobile readers for borrow.
They are pre-loaded with access to a large number of non-copyrighted material from Project Gutenberg. This includes many literature classics up to the early 1900s. In addition, the library’s Kindles can use the state-library-run READS program, which pays for a large title of books. Those also are on the Kindle.
Borrowing is the same with the Kindles as it is for regular books, for now.
“We have a week-long rental with renewals available,” Hulen Bivins, Library Director, said. “We will see how it goes. We are doing it as a request from our patrons, and almost everything we do is as a request from our patrons. So we are always willing to try something new that our patrons would like.”
