Thank you for the information! I do love hearing how libraries handle their unique situations. We serve a vast and varied group of people!
Diane Disbro Pronouns: she/her Circulation Coordinator Scenic Regional Library 251 Union Plaza Drive Union, MO 63084 (636) 583-0652 ext 110 ddis...@scenicregional.org On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 10:20 AM Aubrey Area Library < aubreyarealibr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a couple of questions. > 1. What is the goal for having all family members on one account? > We serve a very transient population and a common question we get with > people moving into the area is do we do family accounts. With grouping yes > we do but once we explain how it works with a family coupled with our > checkout limit (30 items per card) most family groups opt for the one card > or two depending if both parents bring the children to the library. Due to > the transient nature of our service area, you must have your card with you > to checkout this goes for juveniles as well. If the parents opt for one > card and grandma or a babysitter brings the juveniles to the library then > they must have their parents card inorder to checkout materials. This would > alleviate these concerns almost entirely. Parents would only have one > account to manage and juveniles could still get a library card. > > 2. Does Grouping not give you what you need? > Grouping does work and im not knocking it in any way. For us this solution > would work best as our policies, fee, and checkout limits are the same > across the board, adult or juvenile. > > > Drawbacks: > > They will share checkout and fine limits. > As above this is not an issue for our library as our policies are applied > equally regardless of age. We do have libraries in our consortium that do > have different policies based on age. and I understand that this is not a > solution for those types of libraries. > > There will be no privacy. > This is something I have been thinking about. Privacy is a big issue, > especially for me. In practice, juveniles have no expectation of real > privacy as the parent/guardian is ultimately responsible for all items > checkout. The issue of privacy only really comes to the forefront once you > get into the preadolescent/teen age groups. because our policies apply to > all equally, we take a very hands off approach and leave all decisions > about accounts to the parent/guardian. I do not want us getting into a > situation of basically saying "get your teen their own card so you > can't see what they are checking out". > > Grouping works fine for us and the way I laid out solves one problem but > creates another. If anyone has any additional thoughts about the privacy > issue I would be happy to hear them. > > Jordan > > On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 8:57 AM o1bigtenor via Evergreen-general < > evergreen-general@list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 8:38 AM Diane Disbro via Evergreen-general < >> evergreen-general@list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote: >> >>> Hi, Jordan - >>> >>> This is clever! >>> >>> I have a couple of questions. >>> 1. What is the goal for having all family members on one account? >>> 2. Does Grouping not give you what you need? >>> >>> Drawbacks: >>> They will share checkout and fine limits. >>> There will be no privacy. >>> >>> >> Wondering if an advantage would be for 'billing' (fees for membership)? >> >> Regards >> _______________________________________________ >> Evergreen-general mailing list >> Evergreen-general@list.evergreen-ils.org >> http://list.evergreen-ils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/evergreen-general >> > > > -- > > If you need further assistance, please contact the library at 940-365-9162 > or send a reply email. > Thank You, The Library Staff > > 226 Countryside Dr., Aubrey, TX 76227 > > >
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