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1088/1books, library - News - The Orange ... <br />REAL ESTATE I JOBS <br />CARS <br />DEALS <br />CLASSFEDS <br />MACEAN AD <br />SIGN-IN/SIGN-UP SUBSCRIBE E-REGISTER CUSTOMER SERVICE TODAY'S PAPER <br />• NEWS <br />NEWS SPORTS BUSINESS ENTERTAINMENT tJ E <br />Vini <br />SURF REPORT/CAMS I WEATHER I LIVE TRAFFIC <br />TRAVEL OPINION <br />Biogs I California I City-by-CltyNews I Columns I Crime and Courts I Data Central 1 Education I Elections 'Military 1 Nation I Obituaries I OC Watchdog I <br />Photos I Politics and Government' Science !Videos 'World <br />Published: June 20, 2012 Updated: 10:10 p.m. <br />Fullert • n installs $35,000 book vending <br />machine <br />Installed near the transit center, the hope is commuters will read during their journeys. <br />Tweet 101 <br />Reconrrend 'i 187 people recormand this. ILA] Email l cE' share <br />By KEVIN REYNOLDS /THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER <br />FULLERTON — Commuters looking for a mental escape on their train rides will be able to choose from <br />hundreds of best-selling books at a new vending machine stocked bythe Fullerton Public Library. <br />The vending machine, dubbed the FPL Station, is believed to be the first of its kind in Orange County. The <br />machine will be available to the public at the SOCO West Parking Structure across Harbor Boulevard from <br />the Fullerton train station, which is at Santa Fe Avenue. <br />1g4 <br />1 <br />op° <br />�,o <br />t_4 p <br />Andrea Taylor, Technical Services Division Manager <br />with the Fullerton Public Library, stocks books into the <br />librarls new book vending machine located at the <br />SOCO West Parking Structure near the Fullerton Train <br />Station Tuesday. It is believed to be the first of its kind <br />in the county. The machine will have the capacity to <br />dispense 500-books. <br />H. LORRENAU JR., THE ORANGE COUNTY <br />REGISTER <br />MORE PHOTOS» <br />ADVERTISEMENT <br />The library is using a $35,000 federal grant to <br />install the machine, which will Include a drop <br />boxfor retums and a selection of about500 <br />books for checking out. <br />"Its like a Redboxfor books," said Maureen <br />Gebelein, Fullerton's library director. <br />The vending machine, at no cost to the user, <br />went into operation this week and offers hard- <br />cover and paperback books In a varietyof <br />genres. <br />Most with an active Fullerton Public Library card <br />will be able to use the vending machine; if you <br />owe $5 or more on your library card, you will not <br />be able to check out books from the machine. <br />The books in the machine this week are all best <br />sellers. The plan is to monitor what books in the <br />machine are most popular and to stock those <br />types. <br />"Right now, It's kind of an experiment for us," <br />Gebelein said. "It stems from the Idea of trying to <br />reach people where they are." <br />Contact the writer:714-704-3761 or <br />krevnolds fE7ocreoister.com <br />Text08g Next Article » <br />O_C_[ / / CLICK t3L�RF <br />tl L•�fiL Fab- f°r hcdid2Y c s <br />Guide ideas, local events, <br />REMTER (��/// food and fun! <br />VIEW ALL SPECIAL sEC11oNs <br />ADVERTISEMENT <br />More from this story <br />SLIDE SHOW: <br />Fullerton installs $35,000 <br />book vending machine <br />11 Photos » <br />• Little Free Libraries help communities connect <br />through reading <br />• Mckadeit: Santa Ma library goes up in one day <br />• Ponderosa librarynow open to the public <br />• Learning to read as an adult? Courageous <br />More from Brea -Fullerton -La Habra <br />• Body in Arizona channel maybe missing Brea <br />student <br />• State sales tax hunters to visit O.C. businesses <br />• Resident gives a centuryof service <br />wovw nnranister.com/articles/machine-359831-books-library.html <br />1/4 <br />