tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096118.post997571705234398428..comments2023-04-06T06:16:29.664-04:00Comments on Tales from the "Liberry" 2.0: Actual Conversations Heard in Actual Libraries #90Juice S. Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17660779109024097267noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096118.post-79202545389845617012008-04-20T17:15:00.000-04:002008-04-20T17:15:00.000-04:00Hang on. Credit cards have been in use by busines...Hang on. Credit cards have been in use by business people since the 1920s, and the population at large since 1946. Surely that is sufficient time for even public libraries to consider adopting this new fangled technology.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096118.post-78349563139200708942007-09-11T16:18:00.000-04:002007-09-11T16:18:00.000-04:00My library requirements:1) DL must be provided to ...My library requirements:<BR/>1) DL must be provided to get a card (don't change your haircolor after you get the license or we'll be suspicious)<BR/>2) You must have your card to check out. We will accept your DL ONE TIME, but after that you have to have your card, go get it, or get a new one for $3.<BR/>3) Copies are 10 cents per page each and every time you click the print button for each and every page the printer spits out. Your problem if you didn't check the print preview first.<BR/><BR/>You have a nice library Juice...sounds like a friendly one too. Rock on.Holley Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02938123435712583518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096118.post-20692559576379482482007-09-11T13:44:00.000-04:002007-09-11T13:44:00.000-04:00If you knew how many people attempt to get away wi...If you knew how many people attempt to get away with another card because they have overdues and/or fines they don't want to deal with then you'd understand why a DLN helps. <BR/><BR/>It's nice that your library can afford to give away ten pages free to each patron. Most libraries can't afford it. When we had that policy we went through thousands of pieces of paper a month. Now that patrons actually have to pay for their prints, we use 10% of the paper we used to.Viragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13360799336718778864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096118.post-84876864602742974422007-09-10T20:56:00.000-04:002007-09-10T20:56:00.000-04:00We do check licenses to make sure they're valid. ...We do check licenses to make sure they're valid. We also accept state ID numbers in place of DLNs. And if she truly didn't have a DLN we would still have given her a card, after double-checking that she wasn't already in the system under that name. <BR/><BR/>P.S. I'll be sure to pass on your complaint, next time I'm invited to a Blogger development committee meeting.Juice S. Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17660779109024097267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096118.post-898619834051519682007-09-10T14:10:00.000-04:002007-09-10T14:10:00.000-04:00You guys don't actually check to see if the driver...You guys don't actually check to see if the driver's license is valid, do you?<BR/>People could just randomize a driver's license number on the application and go about their business, right?<BR/>And what if she DIDN'T have a driver's license because she's one of those elderly white women? You know what I mean, four foot tall, all you would see are the knuckles as they drive about with a chihuahua in their lap with hair dyed black as midnight with enormous sunglasses.<BR/>Y'know your library is really, really strange. They charge patrons for the first ten pages and require a driver's license. I live someplace significantly more conservative, at least in popular culture's opinion and the east coast's opinion, and they only need photo id to see you are who you say you are without copying the information AND it's posted everywhere in the computer room that the first ten pages (per day) are free to patrons only.<BR/>P.S. it sucks that Blogger demands that I use my gmail account which is wholly different than my offspring of a character actor who appeared on a late sixties science fiction program. Logging in and out is a pain in the keister.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com