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Subject: RE: coin operated lockers for  libraries
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 10:40:59 +0100
From: Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]>
To: 'Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship'
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Maybe us Brits still, in general, are 'behind the times' and keep loose
coins (i.e. 'real money') in their pockets. From my personal experience
the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)'s centralized Collections'
Foyle Reading Room; the British Library; and the National Library of
Scotland (both its Main Library at George IV Bridge and the mile-apart
Map Library) all require a £1 coin inserted to release the locker key.
Coin is, naturally, returnable each time the visitor unlocks the locker.


One difference - upon which I advised when RGS-IBG's Curator of Maps and
involved in minor planning details for the FRR (opened in June 2004) -
is that the lockers are transparent. So that visitors did not leave
their belongings overnight, security issues, and all that . . .

Francis Herbert (ex-Curator of Maps, RGS-IBG, London, UK)

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From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Subject: coin operated lockers for libraries

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Subject:        coin operated lockers for libraries
Date:   Wed, 5 Oct 2011 11:27:16 -0400
From:   Redmond, Edward James <[log in to unmask]>
To:     'Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship'
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Sorry for the non-mappish question but is anyone using coin operated
lockers for patrons in their reading rooms?

Our current lockers are operated by keys but patrons sometimes forget to
turn in the keys.

Ed

Ed Redmond

Geography and Map Division

Library of Congress

101 Indepepence Avenue, SE

Washington, DC 20540