Have an old ID card...one that only has one black stripe on the back? If so, get a new ID card in the Student Life Office (X161). The library can't check out a book for you with an old ID card. Student Life will replace the old with the new...free of charge!
To see how you can use your ID card for printing, stop by the Information Desk. Printing is 5¢ a page (25¢ a page for color printing). If you don't have your ID card, you will need to buy a print card.
I have wondered for some time why the library is so fastidious (i.e. fascist) about enforcing the Parkland I.D. policy. Could you comment on the reasons why occasional and extenuating circumstances cannot be appeased by presenting a state I.D. in lieu of the Parkland card? Is is alogether unreasonable all of the time? I have a little collection of I.D.s at home because, over the course of being a student here, I have had to purchase a replacement for the express purpose of checking out library materials or even glancing at a reserve text on the days that I did not happen to bring my Parkland I.D. Those instances have been extraordinary inconveniences, not to mention having cost me money out of my pocket.
ReplyDeleteIn response to the question of why we require an ID card to check out materials, we require it for your protection. Using anything other than the Parkland ID card could result in checking the item out to the wrong person by mistake. The Parkland ID card is scanned using a unique barcode representing the individual…this ensures the right person gets the right item on their account. No one wants to pay for a missing item they didn’t check out. So, please bring your Parkland ID card to check out materials. Thank you, Parkland College Library.
ReplyDeleteThe Library's requirement sounds very reasonable. I certainly want to be able to look up what I have checked out and when it's due, and I don't want to be charged for things that other people check out and misplace.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you can keep your ID with your school stuff? You have to have your textbooks, notebooks, etc. for class, so how about keeping the ID with those things?
ReplyDeleteJust a thought from someone who is trying hard to get organized.
My question was regarding why a normal state ID or drivers license could not be substituted for a Parkland ID, from time to time, by regular library patrons, when circumstances are pressing and said patron has made the regrettably human error of not having their Parkland ID on hand. It does not seem to me that the college issued ID is a more reliable guarantor of one's identity than the nationally accepted form. I sincerely don't understand why this concession is so untenable, and I don't consider my question having been answered, with all due respect. If it is simply a matter of preference on the part of the library's policymakers, so be it, but my ingenuous curiosity about why the policy is so unmalleable yearns for fulfillment.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Sam's comment, the reason stated in our earlier response, "Using anything other than the Parkland ID card could result in checking the item out to the wrong person by mistake. The Parkland ID card is scanned using a unique barcode representing the individual…this ensures the right person gets the right item on their account," is what we'll say again.
ReplyDeleteScanning in a unique barcode is infinitely more accurate than a human typing in a name from a state-issued identification card. That is the library policy. Please bring your Parkland ID card to check out materials from the library.