Abstract
Today’s technology has reached a milestone, that forces library services to go beyond just book lending. With this mind, Suna Kıraç Library has added iPad to its lending list in 2011, which already included technological tools such flash disks, laptops and calculators. While lending this relatively new technological tool, various aspects of loan should be considered and correct policies & procedures need to be established along with the technical infrastructure. This article provides information on defining policies and creating technical infrastructure that will be useful for libraries that plan to offer iPad lending services. In addition, results of the iPad using survey will be shared in this article. Based on the findings, there will be recommendations provided for libraries that setting up an iPad lending Program in the near future.
Keywords: iPad, Borrowing services, Circulating ipad, Technology lending, Academic libraries, User studies
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License
Copyright (c) 2013 The author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
