On 2019-03-22 9:09 p.m., Hank Rogers wrote:
> Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2019-03-22 7:01 p.m., songbird wrote:
>>> Dave Smith wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> I have to wonder about some of the parents I see with their kids at the
>>>> library.Â* They go to the checkout and each kid has more than a dozen
>>>> books. I appreciate that the kids are interested in reading, but I
>>>> think
>>>> that is really abusing a free service.Â* They can take a few, read them,
>>>> bring them back and getÂ* some more. Leave something for other people.
>>>> People abuse theÂ* DVDs too. One day the woman checking out ahead of me
>>>> had more than 2 dozen videos.Â*Â* That's more than three videos a day for
>>>> the one week loan period.Â* I would have no problem with a 3 movie
>>>> limit.
>>>
>>> Â*Â* as a previous librarian i would always be happy to
>>> check out as many books as a person could keep track
>>> of and reliably return on time and in good condition.
>>
>> That would be the key. It must be hard to keep track of more than 20
>> books.
>>>
>>> Â*Â* children's books are fairly short.Â* i've seen some
>>> families check out 50-100 books for several kids.Â* i
>>> was happy.Â* i loved that they were reading and being
>>> read to.Â* it also helped in that it kept space on
>>> shelves.Â* that library wasn't that big - it has moved
>>> the past few years so that is very nice to have more
>>> space.
>>>
>>> Â*Â* i have a set of books i need to ask them if they
>>> want back now that they have more space.Â* it would
>>> free up a whole shelf for me if they did.
>>>
>>> Â*Â* dvds i can see there being a demand issue that it
>>> would be reasonable for some of the newer ones to
>>> have a limit.Â* we currently have about a dozen dvds
>>> checked out to watch (that is about all Mom watches
>>> at night now).
>>>
>>
>> So, while you have a dozen DVDs sitting around waiting to be seen
>> someone else could have been watching them.
>>
>>
>
> Yep, should be a capital offense. String her up.
>
No! Make her read all of Dave's posts that have appeared over the last,
say, six months:-)