On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:34, Andrew Errington wrote: > > The risk with the public library is that it is only too easy to simply > > leave books which you have read on the returns counter only to have them > > picked up by a thief before they are removed from your card. You end up > > having to pay for the replacements. They can be expensive, especially for > > folk with our interests. I know! > > Yes, I often wondered about that. �I have not have this happen to me or > anyone I know, but it did seem to be a possible turn of events.
It's actually a very real possibility. We had to find about $150 some 10 to 15 years ago when $150 was for us at that time quite a lot of money. While the library were very decent about letting us pay it off week by week it certainly taught me the lesson that it is worth waiting for the clerk to push the books under the bar-code reader. And yes I do mean "that one has to look after one's library card". Also, last time I was in the Library I made mention to the library staff how difficult it is to navigate to to the premium databases, and that the library might find it a good idea to them greater prominence. I was told that the WWW site is being completely redone at the moment. Now might be the moment to put in a request that the login should be protected by the SSL. ( Personally I am not worried about it, There are much better places than the public library to snag pr0n, but I can understand your point only too clearly. ) -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
