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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2006
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ738392 |
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- Students Beat the Queue and Produce Their Own Library Cards Lockton, Laurence College Libraries Library Services Library Automation Computer Software Programming Foreign Countries In the past, it took the library staff of the University of Bath in United Kingdom around two weeks each autumn to produce cards for the main intake of its undergraduates. In this article, the author describes how he transformed the school's traditional library card production into a low-cost self-service system. He also describes how the new system has enabled the library staff to produce four times faster than they did in the past and has drastically lessened students' queuing time for card applications.