Re: Lending Library
Re: Lending Library
- Subject: Re: Lending Library
- From: Benjamin Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 08:58:12 +0100
Hi Group.
We also lend out things, books and a few hardware items (digial camera,
still and video) as Elsa describes.
We are currently using some mac software and a barcode scanner which
makes the process quicker and also more Mac related!
Our default loan time is one week, again if people want it for longer
that's OK so long as no-one else does.
The software and scanner we use is from
http://www.peninsula-group.com/
Cheers
B.
On 2 Apr 2004, at 01:49, Elsa Travisano wrote:
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Dear Rick,
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Our group's modest hardware lending library has been a popular benefit
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for
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members over the years. Right now the library includes a digital
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camera, a
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CD-RW drive, a digital media card reader, and SCSI and USB Zip drives.
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The SCSI and USB Zip drives can be checked out as a set by members who
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need
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to transfer data from older Macs (very popular!) The camera is an
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ancient
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Canon A5, but it still circulates regularly. It has traveled all over
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the
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world, and most everyone who has borrowed it has ended up buying a
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digital
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camera.
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Right now we're considering adding an iSight camera. We're also
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thinking
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about equipment for transferring old family videos to DVD. Does anyone
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have
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any suggestions on this?
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Here's how the hardware library works:
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Items circulate to members at no charge for a week, and can be renewed
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if no
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one is waiting. Members sign a contract agreeing to pay for repairs or
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replacement if damage occurs. To date we have not had to enforce the
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contract. We have discussed asking for a refundable deposit, but
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haven't
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done this yet.
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Hardware must be requested ahead of time - no walk-ins. (Our library is
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located in a member's business). Each piece of equipment circulates in
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the
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original packaging or in a padded case, and each case has an inventory
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taped
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inside the lid listing all the contents. The librarian keeps copies of
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each
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inventory list which she and the borrower check off when the item goes
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out,
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and again when it is returned. We build in a day between loans so we
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have
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time to check equipment before it circulates again.
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Hope this helps,
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Elsa (who was a university librarian in a former life)
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Elsa Travisano
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President, MUG ONE - Macintosh User Group of Oneonta, NY
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> Our group has been attempting to do a lending library program with our
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> members. Right now our library contains some Mac related books. We
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> are
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> looking at adding to our library by purchasing some new hardware
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> equipment
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> to loan out. Typically this would be equipment a member would only
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> use once
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> or twice. I am curious to find out what other groups are doing, and
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> what
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> type of equipment is being purchased and loaned out. I am also
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> curious how
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> groups manage this, so books are returned and equipment does not go
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> missing.
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> Aloha,
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> Rick Ortiz
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> President-Maui Apple Users Society
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