Re: [LM_NET] New policy at my public library

[Sara Ralph <bibliophile26@YAHOO.COM>]

My immediate concern (and obviously not a librarian one) is would another patron be 
able to take MY book that I had been waiting for?  

Sara Ralph
Librarian
Asheboro, NC


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From: Toni Koontz <fussbgt@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Sent: Thu, April 1, 2010 10:02:59 PM
Subject: Re: New policy at my public library

The Main Branch of our public library does this.  At one time you had to go to the 
checkout counter to request the book you had reserved..and they retreived it from 
the shelves behind them.  Then they installed self-checkout  stations even on the 
check-out counter and soon the requested books were placed on shelves in a section 
in the main area. There is a small alcove that once held  lockers and the lockers 
were removed and extra shelving installed there.

I guess I never really thought about  the privacy issue. I reserve a lot of books 
and never really noticed who else had, too.

Toni Koontz
Retired Librarian
Columbus Ohio
----- Original Message ----- From: "Janice Davies" <jgdavies2004@YAHOO.COM>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 7:00 PM
Subject: OT: New policy at my public library


This is off topic because it's about my local public library, but since you're all 
librarians, I wanted your take on it.
Our public library -- probably as a cost cutting measure -- has decided that when a 
patron comes to pick up a book that is being held, they can retrieve it themselves 
from a row of shelves that is in the general part of the library. I went today to 
pick up I book I was having held for me, and saw that right next to my book was a 
book being held from someone in my Moms' club. (we both have names starting with 
DAV).
While 99% of the time, I don't think anyone really cares who sees what they're 
reading, it occurred to me this is a violation of the Library Bill of Rights.
Do the rest of you see it this way? What would you do if you're local library 
decided to use this system?
Jan DaviesRetired Media SpecialistAshburn, Virginiajgdavies2004@yahoo.com

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