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Posted on July 23, 2018 at 11:27 am by Gene Ambaum
Characters: Jody
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Patron: I’m here to pick up the books my husband ordered.
Jody: Did he give you permission?
Patron: He asked me to stop by.
Jody: I need to—
Patron: Please just tell me where the books are.
Patron: Thanks!
Jody: Now let’s see if he gave you permission to check them out.
Jody: Did he give you permission?
Patron: He asked me to stop by.
Jody: I need to—
Patron: Please just tell me where the books are.
Patron: Thanks!
Jody: Now let’s see if he gave you permission to check them out.
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In our local public library, if you tell the circulation desk staffer your spouse’s full name, show your card, and it indicates that you reside at the same address, you can check out books being held in reserve for her or him. Actually, if you forget your card, they’ll allow you to go through the above process with your driver’s license or state ID card.
Our local public library has a similar system. The academic library I work at requires people to fill out a designated borrower form and bring in the patron’s library card.
Same situation in the university library in which I work.
My library must be weird. They let my wife check out my holds all the time. Must be something to do with us wrangling our three kids there on a weekly basis …
Without having your card with her or showing hers to prove that you reside at the same address? Maybe they have seen you together frequently, as you say, and know you both well?
This often has to do with state laws and how strictly relevant departments enforce them.
In Tennessee, for example, T.C.A. 10-8-102 states that “no employee of a library shall disclose any library record that identifies a person as having requested or obtained specific materials, information, or services or as having otherwise used such library…[without]…the written consent of the library user.”
And the larger the library system, the more likely it is that they’re following that to the letter.
You just need the library card number.