Bonner Springs City Library receives two grants for iPads

The Bonner Springs City Library recently received two grants that will help with bringing technology to patrons.

One grant from the Northeast Kansas Library System is for an android tablet that is being used to demonstrate how to use the library’s electronic resources.

Library Director Jack Granath stated that the tablet will enable the Bonner Springs Library to promote services including hoopla, for streaming movies, music and e-books and comics, and Flipster, for e-magazines. The Northeast Kansas Library System offers these services to participating libraries.

Another grant, from the Best Buy Foundation, will pay for six iPads that will be used in the Bonner Springs Library’s summer reading program, “Teenopolis – Summer Reading Movies and Music,” he said. In the program, teens will explore movie-making and music-making, using the tablets.

There are plans to use the tablets in the 2017 and 2018 summer reading programs. In a few months, the library plans to work on a promotional video for the summer reading program, he added.

The grant for six iPads was awarded through Best Buy’s community grants program, in partnership with the Oak Park Best Buy store, according to the library. Library officials said they were deeply appreciative to the Best Buy Foundation for the opportunity to engage community teens in creative technology.