July 13, 2005
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I’m not sure I consider this to be an improvement. This morning I
took Jessica’s girls with me to the library, and upon checking out our
books discovered that in lieu of due-date cards in each book, library
patrons now receive a “receipt”, detailing which books they checked out
and the due date for each.Considering my lamentable inability to hang on to receipts, this does
not give me confidance. If I lose this thing I’m in the soup.
Comments (8)
Arlington did this a year or two ago,w henever I still lived there, and It made it soo much easier. Although you still had to keep up with the cards frm the books (an issue when 2 year olds are around & think they are cool).
What cards? There are no cards. The receipt is not “in addition to”, it’s “instead of,” you see.
Ask your library if they have an online site. Our library does the same thing, and if you need to check what you have out, you can type in your library barcode number. In this way you can access the library catalog from home, and you can even reserve materials from home. It’s great!
They do but for some reason – no one can figure out why – my login doesn’t work. They’ve carefully written it out for me, and I just as carefully enter it where it’s supposed to go, yet am invariably informed that’s not the correct login.
So. The library sez it is, and the library site sez it isn’t.
Otherwise, you’re right as rain.
Denver did the receipt thing at the library and I hated it! I had to use the online system to keep up with which books where due when, and invariably renew them online b/c I hadn’t finished with them yet. Bummer re: your library card login.
[brows lifting] So what you’re saying is this despicable system travelled in with you, like mealybugs on a foreign plant?
Thanks a lot, E-B. >
Hehehehe.
Elaine! They’re supposed to quarrantine such new-fangled, high-falutin ideas until it’s obvious how stupid they are!
I think we have something similar here, although I don’t know. I haven’t personally used the library in years, not since a book I returned was charged to me (full cover price) with interest, even though when they checked the shelves it was there. Someone hadn’t checked it back in, I was told, and the accounting system was separate from the book tracking system and they couldn’t remove those charges from my name. It was something like $120, back then. I think somehow my name is cleared now – Jason also had a charge against him, back then, but that’s been cleared too, and he uses the library all the time. But he was a child. I have never tested the waters, so to speak, not wanting to get that bill for $4832.42 or whatever it might be if they add interest!
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Incredible! The accounting system was separate from the tracking system?
What a bunch of ninnies.
I daresay they finally dumped their way of doing things, and the invalid charges such as yours didn’t get transferred over to the new one.
You’re doubtless in the clear.