[OPLINLIST] USB Flash Drives

[Greg Ricker]

Hi Anita,

 

We sell all three at our libraries. We purchased 100 2GB USB Drives from
TigerDirect. The price was a little under $8 each. We sold them for $8
to our patrons and have been very well received. We are on our second
batch of 100 so far. We had to check several places for the best price.
We wanted the USB drives to be affordable and we noticed that the price
fluctuates. Microcenter.com had good deals recently for removable media.

 

We sell CD-R's for $0.50, CD-RW's for $2.00 each and new floppies for
$0.50. 

 


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Greg Ricker
Warren-Trumbull County Public Library
Assistant Department Manager, Information Technology
444 Mahoning Ave. NW  Warren, Ohio 44483
rickerg at wtcpl.org
330.399.8807 x144

 

From: oplinlist-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplinlist-bounces at oplin.org]
On Behalf Of Anita Carroll
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 3:42 PM
To: OPLINLIST at oplin.org
Subject: [OPLINLIST] USB Flash Drives

 

Good Afternoon!

 

I was wondering if any of the libraries were selling flash drives for
their patrons to save documents from the public computers.  Are any
libraries selling writable CD's? Our Friends group used to have floppy
disks for sale which worked for smaller files on our old public
computers.  Our new computers, however, do not have floppy drives.  If
you are selling flash drives at your library, could you let me know the
following:

 

1.	Where you get the flash drives
2.	How many you buy at a time
3.	What memory size (I'm looking at 1GB or even a 128MB version
because they are cheapest)
4.	How much do you charge
5.	Do you get many patrons who purchase them?

 

If you are selling writable CD's, could you let me know:

 

1. Do you use one-time writables or re-writables?

 

If you aren't selling drives, but are dealing with saving documents for
patrons in a different way, I'd love some ideas.  

 

Anita

 

Anita G. Carroll

Library Director

Franklin-Springboro Public Library

44 East Fourth Street

Franklin, Ohio 45005

Office:  937.746.2665

Cell:      513.259.0927

Fax:      937-746-2847

Email:  carrolan at oplin.org

 

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