At Abingdon library a new system for scanning books is to be introduced within a few weeks. Most of the books downstairs have a yellow sticker …
indicating they have already been chipped.
Borrowers will put their stack of books down on a reader and it will book them all out, or back in again.
The current system invoves librarians swiping a bar code, and stamping a date inside the book. With the new system fewer librarians will be required.
btw. Last year I always got an e-mail reminder a day or two before books were due back. Very clever I thought, but it did not happen this time.
The sign of ‘progress’. I can now add librarian to my cv as well as checkout operator.
The closure of libraries across the country is an unfortunate situation; the culture of this country is reduced even further and community expertise is lost.
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