1,000 books to be borrowed from a library at least need a van. And, of course, people skills to convince the librarian. But in 15 public libraries in the state and there are not many complications. Just a reader and a card. Just in these days is setting up the project approved in December by the Ministry of Culture to these facilities begin to provide digital books.
The service works similarly in 15 libraries. After registering, the user can take an e-reader and loaded with electronic books and keep it between 15 and 45 days. The other common factor between all the institutes involved is the inversion of the ministry: 130,000 euros, among other things, to acquire 750 e-readers.
Opening dates, numbers of devices and books in the library catalog vary. The power Cantabria began Jan. 3 with 41 readers, 184 electronic books loaded onto the cards and "a success that we did not expect," he says by phone from Santander Director Loreta Rodríguez. In the library of Huelva, however, the loan will start on February 21, coinciding with its tenth anniversary.
"There will be 37 devices and 1084 titles," says director Antonio Gómez. By the end of February all (Ciudad Real, Huelva, La Rioja, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Madrid, Mérida, Murcia, Oviedo, Palma de Mallorca, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Tarragona, Valencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza) will be populated new e-readers.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Don Quixote, The Iliad. For now lend almost exclusively classic texts free of copyright. "It's a way to save them and preserve them for future generations," according to the U.S. Peter Brantley, leader of a movement that promotes global loan books. In anticipation of the first official reviews, libraries consulted portray a satisfactory response from the public that supports the view Brantley.
One step forward, but however small the glass is half empty can also be seen. Above all, the project of the Ministry of Culture is a new half. Most texts can be downloaded easily catalog of web pages such as the Instituto Cervantes or Google Books. These libraries recognize that this is nothing more than an effort to familiarize the readers with new media.
5.3% are the Spanish who already read the e-readers, according to the latest barometer of the Editors Guild Federation. Loan conditions in many cases forced to move to the library, since the only way to get a particular book is taking home the reader also. But what is lacking above all, and still lacking is the ability to provide more recent books, or even new.
Copyright and the lack of an agreement with the distributors make squaring the circle is now remote. Sources of the Madrid left it that much remains to be done and time to wait. And that, according to library director of the Rioja, Lola Ramírez, the solution itself is simple: "A digital platform that is accessible libraries, buy books and make them available to the user." Gomez, Huelva library also opt for this possibility.
Within months, may be valued more concrete: Arantza Larrauri, Libranda platform, created by an agreement among seven editorials for online sales of digital books, explained by phone that they are "preparing a proposal for libraries to offer the same services are now available to libraries.
" A small step closer to the dream Book Server Project, led by Brantley: A digital global network of sales and lending of hundreds of thousands of books. Mohacho Augustine is clear that this is the course for the future. The director of the municipal library of Don Benito (Badajoz) can boast of being the pioneer of the digital book loan in Spain.
And indeed it does. It is the first sentence that says pick up the phone. Began to provide readers and electronic books in 2008. Since then, many municipal and regional libraries have already been converted to faith in digital. "The devices cost about 300 euros, just buy five," recalls Mohacho.
Now the library has 10, and the director plans to acquire another five this year. Mohacho also claims it is negotiating with several publishers to buy the digital version of recent works. Meanwhile, enjoy and users of new media: "It allows you to highlight and if you click on a word takes you to its dictionary meaning." The consequences, unpredictable, "I never thought I read Hitler's Mein Kampf and yes I have done with this gadget." 
The service works similarly in 15 libraries. After registering, the user can take an e-reader and loaded with electronic books and keep it between 15 and 45 days. The other common factor between all the institutes involved is the inversion of the ministry: 130,000 euros, among other things, to acquire 750 e-readers.
Opening dates, numbers of devices and books in the library catalog vary. The power Cantabria began Jan. 3 with 41 readers, 184 electronic books loaded onto the cards and "a success that we did not expect," he says by phone from Santander Director Loreta Rodríguez. In the library of Huelva, however, the loan will start on February 21, coinciding with its tenth anniversary.
"There will be 37 devices and 1084 titles," says director Antonio Gómez. By the end of February all (Ciudad Real, Huelva, La Rioja, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Madrid, Mérida, Murcia, Oviedo, Palma de Mallorca, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Tarragona, Valencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza) will be populated new e-readers.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Don Quixote, The Iliad. For now lend almost exclusively classic texts free of copyright. "It's a way to save them and preserve them for future generations," according to the U.S. Peter Brantley, leader of a movement that promotes global loan books. In anticipation of the first official reviews, libraries consulted portray a satisfactory response from the public that supports the view Brantley.
One step forward, but however small the glass is half empty can also be seen. Above all, the project of the Ministry of Culture is a new half. Most texts can be downloaded easily catalog of web pages such as the Instituto Cervantes or Google Books. These libraries recognize that this is nothing more than an effort to familiarize the readers with new media.
5.3% are the Spanish who already read the e-readers, according to the latest barometer of the Editors Guild Federation. Loan conditions in many cases forced to move to the library, since the only way to get a particular book is taking home the reader also. But what is lacking above all, and still lacking is the ability to provide more recent books, or even new.
Copyright and the lack of an agreement with the distributors make squaring the circle is now remote. Sources of the Madrid left it that much remains to be done and time to wait. And that, according to library director of the Rioja, Lola Ramírez, the solution itself is simple: "A digital platform that is accessible libraries, buy books and make them available to the user." Gomez, Huelva library also opt for this possibility.
Within months, may be valued more concrete: Arantza Larrauri, Libranda platform, created by an agreement among seven editorials for online sales of digital books, explained by phone that they are "preparing a proposal for libraries to offer the same services are now available to libraries.
" A small step closer to the dream Book Server Project, led by Brantley: A digital global network of sales and lending of hundreds of thousands of books. Mohacho Augustine is clear that this is the course for the future. The director of the municipal library of Don Benito (Badajoz) can boast of being the pioneer of the digital book loan in Spain.
And indeed it does. It is the first sentence that says pick up the phone. Began to provide readers and electronic books in 2008. Since then, many municipal and regional libraries have already been converted to faith in digital. "The devices cost about 300 euros, just buy five," recalls Mohacho.
Now the library has 10, and the director plans to acquire another five this year. Mohacho also claims it is negotiating with several publishers to buy the digital version of recent works. Meanwhile, enjoy and users of new media: "It allows you to highlight and if you click on a word takes you to its dictionary meaning." The consequences, unpredictable, "I never thought I read Hitler's Mein Kampf and yes I have done with this gadget."
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