[Publib] barcodes scanned on phones

[Anne U. Frontino]

Hi All,

            Our library is considering allowing patrons to use barcodes
scanned onto their smart phones to check out books.  If you currently allow
this, please let me know how it works for your library.  If you have tried
it and changed your mind, we would like to know what your problems were.

            Our library serves a small, highly educated town of about 12,000
people.  We have only had a few instances of patrons trying this method of
checking out items, but we feel that there may be some privacy or other
misuse issues lurking.  We have never been a library which requires a patron
to have their library card when they check out, so this is not a matter of
convenience.  (For the record, we have no self-check machines yet.)

            Thanks, in advance, for whatever help you can provide.

            I will be happy to summarize for the list.

 

Anne Frontino (currently reading "The boy who harnessed the wind" by William
KamKwamba [and] "Ice cold" by Tess Gerritsen.

 

Anne U. Frontino

Head, Technical Services

Haddonfield Public Library

Haddonfield, NJ 08033

 

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