The Center Path is building a lending library. We hope, one day, to hold a world-class library of esoteric, philosophical, religious and other materials. Access to this library is free to active members of The Center Path, and for a small fee for others. We are accepting donations, both financial and of books to support the library and the church.
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Deirdre, are you also thinking about lending etexts the way many modern libraries do? That might give you the ability to have large holdings in a limited space.
Meical
Hi Meical,
What I will have is pdf copies of things that are in the public domain, and materials others may have released for that purpose. In the future, we may have e-books, but I’m not yet familiar with the technology to allow lending of ebooks. It’s a bit more complicated than just having the files and lettingn people download them. We’re looking at a few library management systems, and I don’t know what free systems permit the lending of ebooks yet, or how a library can purchase copies of ebooks for lending purposes.
Short answer – I’ll look at that while we’re setting up the LMS, but we have a lot of work to go before we get there. Sorry.