Weekly Update – September 7, 2011
Blue reciprocal borrower cards
On August 8, 2011 the Executive Committee voted to begin using blue reciprocal borrower cards beginning on January 1, 2012. A proposal was presented by the Indiana State Library based on the discussion and questions from the circulation committee meeting on July 19, 2011. The goal of using the blue reciprocal borrower cards is to clearly separate reciprocal borrower patron privileges from all other borrowers by requiring each Evergreen Indiana library to use blue Evergreen Indiana patron cards for their reciprocal borrowers. This will communicate clearly to both the patron and the staff member that the patron is a reciprocal borrower with limited borrowing privileges.
The Indiana State Library will be purchasing blue RB cards through Creative Data Products to cover the current reciprocal borrowers at each Evergreen Indiana library. All public libraries in the consortium have 5-digit prefixes and one school library has a 6-digit prefix so we will use “5” for the 7th digit on all reciprocal borrower patron numbers. The document below shows the total number of reciprocal borrowers reported by Evergreen Indiana libraries in the 2010 Annual Report. Please contact the Evergreen Indiana Coordinator if you see that the total RBs for your library is inaccurate and communicate the accurate number, sborger@library.in.gov. After this initial order of blue reciprocal borrower cards, all Evergreen Indiana libraries will be responsible for ordering their own RB cards. The Evergreen Indiana Coordinator will continue to place patron library cards and item barcodes orders on behalf of member libraries quarterly throughout the year.