Lateral with Tom Scott
81: Women in red
Apr 26, 2024
Join Tom Scott as he discusses creative calibration, Canadian cities, crafty cataloguing, and more with Simon Clark, Alec Steele, and Rowan Ellis. Explore the innovative sensors in NFL facilities, quirky petitions in small towns, and strategies for enhancing debit card security. Delve into poetry terms, system conversions, and fictional library characters in this entertaining and informative podcast.
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- Using fictional borrower accounts can prevent book loss and save on repurchasing costs.
- Women in Red group on Wikipedia focuses on adding missing biographies of women to enhance representation.
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Avoiding Lost Books and Budget Loss
The librarians at East Lake County Library in Florida created a fictional borrower account named Chuck Finley to check out 2,361 books over nine months. By doing this, they avoided selling books that weren't being borrowed, thus saving money by not having to repurchase them later if demand grew. This tactic prevented the loss of funds linked to book loans and provided an efficiency workaround for book circulation.
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