Last October I reviewed the exciting news on this blog that our library was awarded grant funds to create a Technology Lending Program. Since then we’ve purchased the cameras and equipment, and cataloged and organized all the pieces. Thanks to our film instructor W. Clay for his help in recommending all the equipment. Kudos also go out to Patty Wong’s Grant Writing course at San Jose State’s iSchool which helped me to write the application. Now comes the hard part: Writing the the policies and procedures, asking our beta testers to give us feedback, testing the process, and then repeating the process until we get it right. Luckily, we have some examples of other colleges who’ve been through the process and we are happy to give them credit here. Portland Community College’s Technology for Checkout program was a great motivator. LibGuides from Claremont Colleges was very extensive and set the bar for us. Last but definitely not least, and where the ultimate bar was set is the NCSU Libraries’ Technology Lending Program.
I’ll be spending most of August working on the policies. Luckily I found this fabulous book by Sander, Mestre and Kurt published in 2015:
Stay tuned!