From: Michele McGinnis (mm@kk.org)
Date: Wed Sep 15 2004 - 09:29:25 PDT
Message-Id: <a06110494bd6d0411107b@[192.168.0.2]> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:29:25 -0700 From: Michele McGinnis <mm@kk.org> Subject: Final on SFPL cards
Dear Membership,
On August 12, 2004, Deborah Hunt wrote a letter to Paul Underwood,
Acting City Librarian at the San Francisco Public Library, inquiring
about a policy change that would discontinue issuance/renewal of
business library cards. She asked him to reconsider the policy as
many members, upon hearing about the policy change, expressed
interest in participating in the business card program. For many of
us, learning about the policy change was in fact how we learned of
the program's existence! Deb offered to discuss with Mr. Underwood
how SLA might help make the program more economically feasible.
Mr. Underwood wrote to Deborah on September 2, 2004, informing her
that the policy change would go forward as planned. He explained that
it adheres to the library's efforts in the following areas:
1. Assuring individual card holders know their responsibilities and
use their cards appropriately
2. Negotiating compliance to licenses and contracts with database
vendors for access to library card holders
3. Having one person attached to each library card ensures that equal
access is provided to its public computers
He further clarified the reasons that the business library cards were
not "cost effective." This is due to business card holders failing to
pay fines, return books, and pay for lost materials. With the low
number of business card holders, the outstanding fines, etc. were
"glaring."
I want to thank Deborah Hunt for handling this while I was away on bereavement.
Sincerely,
Michele McGinnis
Government Relations Chair, SLA-SF
-- Michele McGinnis, MSIS Research Librarian to Kevin Kelly149 Amapola Pacifica, CA 94044 650-355-7676 650-359-9701 fax
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