STORRS, Conn.—University of Connecticut students and employees will soon be able to check out more than books and academic journals at one of the school's libraries.
UConn plans a bike-sharing test program in the next few months, in which anyone with a current UConn identification could borrow one of 20 bicycles at the Homer Babbidge Library.
The Undergraduate Student Government purchased the bikes. If the pilot program is successful, more bicycles will be purchased.
The program's start date hasn't been determined. Yale, Emory and the University of Chicago have similar programs.
UConn had a bike-sharing program in the late 1960s, but it had no formal checkout system and many bikes disappeared. They were discovered years later, dumped in a campus lake.
