[Lswtalk] Overdrive - get a library card

[Dede Sanders]

I like the convenience of the pilot for the community...but how do they 
prove they are from our parish?  If its just a zip code, I could put in any 
town's zip.
  
 When a patron has very overdue items, we block them from all services 
until the item is returned or paid for.  The pilot would undermine that.  I 
don't know if I like the idea for that reason.  What reason would a patron 
have to return their items if they could just get on Overdrive and checkout 
anything they wanted to after being blocked?
  
 What is your take on the pilot?
  
   Delia Sanders
 Library Administrator
  
 Cameron Parish Library
 P.O. Box 1130
 Cameron, LA 70631
 (337)775-5421
 fax 800-861-3492

  

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 From: "Erin Chesnutt" <echesnut at beau.org>
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2017 2:38 PM
To: "lswtalk at beau.org" <lswtalk at beau.org>
Subject: [Lswtalk] Overdrive - get a library card   
Hi, all!

Did you guys see / hear about the Get a Library Card (GLC) initiative
from OD that let's patrons in your service area use their zip code and
mobile number to apply for a mock library card to use in OD so they
don't have to come in to the library?

It's a pilot program, but they plan - as I understand it - to eventually
allow the library to set how long the mock card can be used (during
pilot program, it expires after 1 year) and the library can also access
the list of registered GLC users for their area to a) count them as
library card holders, if you so choose and b) reach out to the patron to
encourage them to get a full library card.

I'm interested in possibly exploring this (depending on how the pilot
program pans out) but I don't know if this is a service we could sign up
for individually or if the whole consortium would need to sign up. 
Anyone else want to discuss at an upcoming LSW meeting?

http://blogs.overdrive.com/featured-post-library-blog/2017/10/17/get-a-libra
ry-card/

--

Erin N. Chesnutt, MLIS
Director
*/Beauregard Parish Library/*/
Knowledge. Growth. Imagination./

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