Woo! Very spiff article. I'm wondering if the benefits of an anonymous library card system are worth the effort to implement it. I would imagine that you think that they are, but do you think most other librarians/library administrators would?
That depends. What's the monetary value of the mayor's borrowing record? How much would it cost the library in reduced cooperation from the city if a library employee leaked the fact that the mayor checked out books on how to avoid paying income taxes?
I can see the personal issues that would sway one library or the other for a anonymous system. What I'm wondering is if there is enough demand to actually have these systems implemented. I'd love to see this sort of system around, but I'm afraid that too much of the "we don't have anything to hide" reasoning would kill a proposal for this.
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