[Publib] self check outs

[BookBitch]

Kathryn, your post gave me something to think about. I
am lacking the embarrassment gene, so your viewpoint
puts things in a different perspective for me.

We are getting a self-checkout unit sometime "soon",
whatever that means in library-speak. We have always
had a problem with sex books, erotica books, and so
forth disappearing. Some of those books would be gone
for months and then just show up again, a sort of
patron self-checkout, as it were! I always thought
that people were taking them because they were too
embarrassed to check them out.  They can return them
without staff interaction, so maybe with self-checkout
that will eliminate the embarrassment factor and keep
more of our "hot" books on the shelves.

Stacy Alesi
Library Name "Censored"
Boca Raton, Florida
& MLIS student at USF

--- "King, Kathryn"
<Kathryn.King at fortworthlibrary.org> wrote:

 SNIP

>> The short story is....I am all for self-checkout. 
> It means I can check
> out all those sex books (or diet books or divorce
> manuals) without my
> co-workers/neighbors knowing it :)
> 
> kathryn


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