The (San Jose, Calif.) Mercury News: Train riders at a San Francisco area train station will soon have the Contra Costa County library system at their fingertips. The last station on the East County BART line — through which about 5,000 people travel each weekday — will be one of the first places in the country to carry an automated book-borrowing kiosk. It resembles an ATM, except it holds 400 popular paperback titles instead of cash. Others will be added later at a shopping center in Discovery Bay, a transit village near the Pleasant Hill BART station and a site in West County not yet chosen. The machines will be considered part of the county library system, which will operate and maintain them. The approximately $95,000 for each kiosk is being paid for by grants from the California State Library and Bay Area Library and Information System, and the books for the first machine will be stocked by multimedia supplier Baker & Taylor Inc.
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