Book-lending machines prove popular stand-in for Ottawa libraries

Book-lending machines prove popular stand-in for Ottawa libraries

In the year-and-a-half or so since book-vending machines run by the Ottawa Public Library were installed at the Hunt Club-Riverside Community Centre, the area’s councillor Maria McRae says she’s only fallen more in love with them. So much so that she says she’ll be pushing to have them installed in light-rail stations and possibly community and neighbourhood health centres — just about any public institution on a major transit line should at least be considered.