The Glen Ellyn library in Illinois is home to a kiosk that offers readers a unique and surprising literary experience.
All library visitors need to do is press a button and they’ll be rewarded with a poem or short story. The kiosk, which cost $10,000 and is produced by French publishing house Short Edition, can be located anywhere there is an electric outlet.
It is proving to be popular as it has doled out 780 poems and stories in just two weeks, according to a Daily Herald report.
The library has customized content so that every tenth story printed is one by a local novelist, and users can choose either a «children» or «general adult» button in accessing the publishing house's content catalog, according to the report.
The kiosk, which debuted two years ago, was discovered by Dawn Bussey, library director, at an industry event.
«Because it's connecting to the Short Édition's cloud, it's really unlimited,» Bussey told the Daily Herald. "It's a matter of how many stories they have in their database, and they continue to run contests and judge the stories that come in and then add content to their cloud database.
Source: Kiosk Marketplace