[LM_NET] Self Check Out

[Judy Meadows <JLMEADO@VERONA.K12.MO.US>]

As the only staff member at a K-12 school library, I have trained students to 
handle checkout for the past nine years.  They learn how to use the keyboard to 
type in students last names and the scanner on book baracodes.  They can override 
the overdue or too many book block (I'd rather they get another book, than have the 
book go out without being checked out!)   I don't try with students younger than 
third grade, but it is a tremendous help to me to have students handling the 
checkout.  Everyone eventually gets a turn to be in charge during scheduled visits, 
and they get to pick someone to help them.  This enables me to circulate in the 
library to provide readers guidance, supervise behind the one tall stack, help 
students with the OPAC and the AR quizzing.  If there is a problem with checkout I 
am available to help.  I only have one scanner, but sometimes when the load at the 
circ desk is heavy, I bring up the circulation program at another computer and type 
in names and barcodes, or let a dextrous student do it.  Yes, mistakes are made, 
but that even happens when I'm handing the circulation desk, so I can live with it.

If students come into the library when I am out, they can do their own checkout, on 
the honor system.

Judy L. Meadows
Library Media Specialist
Vedas Jackson Memorial Library
Verona R-VII Schools
101 E. Ella Street
Verona, Missouri  65769
417-498-6775




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