I love reading books and that’s why I have a membership card for my city’s public library. Do I visit it often? No, I don’t. I’m normally too busy or lazy to leave the house just for that. For the ...

Kristy Thompson scanned her library card, tapped in her pin number and walked into the Elko New Market Library Thursday afternoon, motion lights announcing her entry into the darkened space. She ...

The Montana Branch began offering self-service hours on Tuesday, July 9, via Open+, a comprehensive self-service model that provide controlled access to the library. Community members who are ...

The library’s customer service staff are not present during self-service hours. At the self-service library, you can borrow and return material, use the library terminals, work and study. You also ...

With the start of another academic year, Mugar Memorial Library at Boston University is offering a self-checkout system that serves as a tech-savvy alternative to checking books out at the circulation ...

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A recent post by Emily Ford at In the Library With a Lead Pipe, a blog that publishes substantial, sourced, peer-reviewed essays that are always worth reading, asked us to think about what we do and ...

The president of one of the province's largest unions is encouraging British Columbians to avoid self-checkout stations at their local libraries — or anywhere else they may find the ubiquitous ...