1. Get a Kick Out of Your Kindle Technology Tips for Leery Librarians and Terrified Teachers Phoebe B. Warmack, Director, William H. White Jr. Library, Woodberry Forest School

3. Kindle Content: Kindle Wireless Reading Device Kindle for PC Kindle for Mac Kindle for iPhone Kindle for Blackberry Kindle for iPad What Does Kindle Mean?

4. What they share: 3G Wireless (Global coverage) Electronic Ink Built-in PDF Reader Battery life of 1 week/charge Text-to-Speech Over 480,000 books Over 1.8 million free, out-of- copyright, pre-1923 books U.S. and international newspapers, magazines and blogs Adjustable font size Notes feature Bookmark feature Rotating display New York Times Bestsellers and new releases from $9.99 Kindle (Global Wireless Reading Devices)

5. 6” diagonal display 8” x 5.3” x 0.36” Weighs 10.2 ounces Holds up to 1,500 books Manual Rotating display $259.00 Kindle

6. 9.7” diagonal display 10.4” x 7.2” x 0.38” Weighs 18.9 ounces Holds up to 3,500 books Automatic Rotating display $489.00 Kindle DX

7. Motivator Budget “Green” Attracted by: Storage Access Portability Electronic ink We look good “Buzz” Why Kindles at Woodberry?

8. The Basics: How many Kindles? Who can borrow a Kindle? What makes a “Kindle purchase”? Who makes a Kindle purchase? How Does it Work at WFS?

9. Primary purchases We have terrible wireless signals! Proprietary copies How we keep content “current” What We Do: Purchasing & Loading Devices

10. What We Do: Cataloging MARC records KIN designation and Kindle collection OPAC view

11. Circulation Period Office Housing Device sychronization Deregistered What We Do: Circulating Devices

12. Do we have The Lost Symbol yet? I need it and I need it NOW! I’d like to bring my class in to study Jack London, do we have enough copies of his short stories for each of my students? Who Uses Them?

13. Chargers Personal Devices Individual Downloads Breaks What We Don’t Do

14. www.amazon.com www.edukindle.com Where to Find Out More

15. Phoebe Warmack Director William H. White Jr. Library Woodberry Forest School Woodberry Forest, VA 22989 540.672.6048 phoebe_warmack@woodberry.org My Contact Information: