The Clayton High School Library is receiving new additions. Last year, the library’s collection of electronic book readers, or e-readers, increased to six.

Librarian Lauren DeRigne thinks that the school does not need to buy any more right now.

“Currently I feel like six [e-readers] is about the number,” DeRigne said. “I’ll see if the need increases next year, which is may, and then I’ll decide from there.”

However, the e-books are often checked out.

“Most often they are checked out,” DeRigne said. “We normally have a little bit of a lull, sometimes right after winter break until the new IRA assignments are handed out.”

However, the library only has approximately 24 books for the nook, and 30 for the kindle.

DeRigne, meanwhile, has a picture for the future of e-reading that does not involve e-readers. the library recently subscribed to a program that allows them to download books onto a specific computer, instead of using a program.

However, DeRigne feels that print books are not going out of style.

“I definitely think that it [our use of e-readers] will increase,” DeRigne said. “and you know, some of the print, we’ll obviously still have print for the next few years, we’ll start looking for more, especially reference and non-fiction, for those to be more e-books.”

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