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- From: joanne_leary@QMRELAY.MAIL.CORNELL.EDU (Joanne Leary)
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- Subject: Re: Gov. Docs. on Reserve
- Message-ID: <CIRCPLUS%92111614323692@IDBSU.BITNET>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 07:55:20 GMT
- Sender: "CIRCPLUS@IDBSU - LIBRARY CIRCULATION ISSUES"
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- Reply to: RE>Gov. Docs. on Reserve
- Of course you must require some kind of identification if the piece physically
- leaves your hands. Your assignment, as stated by the government, is to make
- the material readily accessible to anyone. If you can't hold onto the material
- because you can't get it back, then you obviously cannot make it accessible,
- and you've failed your prime directive.
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- Some might dispute the requirement for an ID. What if Joe Slobotnik comes in
- and has left his ID at home? Can you deny him access on that basis? You bet.
- Your only alternative is to require that the borrower take off his or her left
- shoe and leave it at the circ desk. That will insure the document's return as
- surely as an ID; but how many libraries are willing to take shoes rather than
- IDs? How many patrons would be willing to make the swap? What about the
- health issues involved with keeping shoes behind the reserve desk? Even the
- government might see the difficulty in such an arrangement...
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- Joanne Leary
- Cornell Engineering Library
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