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Streaming content for patrons

By karen | March 22, 2013

Library Journal writes about how the Ephrata Public Library in Pennsylvania circulates Roku boxes as a way to provide patrons with access to streaming content such as NetFlix and HuluPlus.  For those not familiar with the Roku box, it’s a great little device that allows you to stream content from a huge variety of sources, both free and subscription, through your home wireless or broadband.  I personally use it for NetFlix, Pandora, Amazon and various free content sources.  I love my Roku (thanks Lauren M. for turning me on to it) and even take it with me if I go away for a week and am renting a beach house (with wireless, of course).

It’s this wonderful portability that makes it a great device for libraries to loan.  The Ephrata PL lends the devices with library subscriptions to NetFlix and HuluPlus.  Read about it in Library Journal.  Anyone in RI doing this?

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