From: Wynne Dobyns (dobyns.w@apple.com)
Date: Wed Sep 15 2004 - 10:22:55 PDT
Message-Id: <E1EEDC19-073B-11D9-AFEE-003065F1C8B8@apple.com> From: Wynne Dobyns <dobyns.w@apple.com> Subject: Re: SLA-SF: Final on SFPL cards Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:22:55 -0700
Public Library policies are often set by the entity's Library
Ccommission and may need to adhere to city or county policies. There
is a way around SFPL's canceling the business library cards by applying
for a personal library card. Unless SFPL requires that card holders be
city residents, any resident of California (or perhaps the Bay Area)
may apply for a card. This would essentially serve the same purpose
as long as you made clear to your manager that the card was not (only?)
for personal use and that fines for overdues and lost/damaged materials
checked out for one of your users would be paid by the company.
Just my two cents.
Wynne Dobyns
Law Librarian
Apple Computer, Inc.
1 Infinite Loop MS 3-I
Cupertino, CA 95014
408-974-5054
dobyns.w@apple.com
On Sep 15, 2004, at 9:59 AM, Michele McGinnis wrote:
Duly noted. Perhaps my subject line should have read "Update on SFPL
cards." Could you please keep me informed on your progress? If I can be
of any assistance, please let me know.
Good Luck, Michele
> Michele, I don't accept that this is the final answer on the SFPL cards
> issue. Some of us are still working on it and hope there will be more
> discussion about it with the librayr. For example, it seems to me that
> if
> librarians (and not just anyone from a firm) were responsible for the
> business cards, it would be much less likely that books were lost or
> not
> returned or that fines weren't paid.
>
> As John Paul Jones said, "We have not yet begun to fight."
>
> Paula Lichtenberg, Librarian
> Keker & Van Nest LLP
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michele McGinnis [mailto:mm@kk.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 9:29 AM
> To: SLA-SF@exploratorium.edu
> Subject: SLA-SF: 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 Kelly
>
> 149 Amapola
> Pacifica, CA 94044
> 650-355-7676
> 650-359-9701 fax
>
> mm@kk.org
> www.kk.org
>
> "They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the
> desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution,
> man." --Michael Moore on librarians
>
> "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can
> change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
> -- Margaret Mead
>
>
>
-- Michele McGinnis, MSIS Research Librarian to Kevin Kelly149 Amapola Pacifica, CA 94044 650-355-7676 650-359-9701 fax
mm@kk.org www.kk.org
"They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man." --Michael Moore on librarians
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead
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