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Lehighton Area HS Library is converting to Destiny this month, March 2009. We need advice on how to handle the date due situation. Individual date due slips are not printable from Destiny and we are used to printing them out from Circ Plus. How are our Destiny librarians handling date due? We have pockets in our books, but no place to stamp a date due. I find that stamping would be taking a step backwards.....please help!

follow up...I had my very computer savvy fiance do an Excel program of date due slips. Each morning, we will have to check the due dates, enter the information on the Excel spreadsheet and print out the slips. It is not a perfect solution, but it will work.

Way to be creative!!!- Lauren

POWER LIBRARY 2010 We're trying to use what is left of the decimated Power Library resources, but evidently since the change, we need a username and password for NetLibrary. Anybody know where I can find it? It does not appear to be my school's "PL" number of the powerweb one for a few years back. Thanks for any help! Barb Jaindl, Salisbury Township School District 8-24.10

eReaders Anybody using handheld readers in the library? Nook? Kindle? Sony? Suggestions? We were all prepared to launch into it--and then started to discover some of the issues surrounding them. See August issue of SLJ. Barb Jaindl

Hello Barb. I'm not sure when you posted this but here goes... I rec'd 5 refurbished sony ebook readers through a grant and have been circulating them to students since last Sept. I'm sure all brands have their quirks but we have had great success with the roll-out. The students (who have their parent's permission) can keep them for a week at a time. I have 100 classic titles and 100 contemporary titles loaded on each. With Sony, you can buy the book once and load it on 5 devices. Maybe they aren't perfect, but what is? If you could get someone at Amazon to agree that you can circulate them to students, I'd get the new Kindle at $140! They weren't willing to say that a year ago but that may have changed. Email me if you want to chat: robbinsc@slsd.org Corry Robbins (Southern Lehigh MS)