From: Library (Library@KVN.com)
Date: Wed Sep 15 2004 - 10:42:13 PDT
Message-ID: <431FB68B186CE24480499DC77B74DBBA09712AA3@SFOEX01> From: Library <Library@KVN.com> Subject: RE: SLA-SF: Final on SFPL cards Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:42:13 -0700
We are still in the process of strategizing, so I didn't really have
anything to report yet, but this isn't over by a long shot. I will let you
know what is up next week after my co-conspirator and I meet for lunch.
Here are some point we discussed this morning after receiving your e-mail:
1) Visitors from Warsaw or London can get a $10 temporary borrowing card
(see the library's web site), but someone who works in the city can't? Like
they never lose cards from people from out of town who borrow books?
2) As excerpted from the S.F. Administrative Code, sec. 8.21-2, it seems
that the fee schedule is set by the Board of Supervisors (and administered
by the Library Commission) and they might be interested in hearing about a
possible new source of revenue. Plus, this is not a business friendly
decision in a time when the city is trying to attract business. (Remember
when there was an entire Business Branch?)
SEC. 8.21-2. LIBRARY FINES AND FEES.
(a) Fee Schedule. The Library Commission is hereby authorized to
charge fines and fees for the use of library materials and services in
accordance with the following schedule:
SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY FINES & FEES SCHEDULE
SERVICE FEES
Borrowers Cards
San Francisco & California Residents
Free
Visitor's Card (non-California)
$ 10.00
Non refundable
3 months duration
Firm (business) card
Free
3) From librarians in the SFPL system, we hear anecdotally that much of the
abuse comes not from business firms, but from teachers who share their cards
with students. Also churches. So keep the business card a businesses only
card and not for schools or churches, if that in fact is where the abuse
comes from.
Please keep my e-mail under your hat for. Once we have some ideas in mind
(hopefully next week), I fully intend to share this all with you, so SLA
take a leadership role in seeing this to a successful fruition. And I'm sure
there will be other useful posts coming in, like from Wynn Dobins.
Paula
-----Original Message-----
From: Michele McGinnis [mailto:mm@kk.org]
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 9:59 AM
To: SLA/SF Listserv
Subject: RE: SLA-SF: Final on SFPL cards
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
>
>
>
>
>
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