university libraries increasingly started switching to RFID tags, so when you return the book, it passes through the passive gateway and the book is automatically inventoried. and since the person who manages putting the books back is usually student labor, the librarian is not even that.
you could check books out yourself, totally self serve with your student ID. the alarm would go off before you made it to the doors if you had a book that was no-removal or not checked out. the librarian wouldn't even stop you... security would, and most of the time it was innocent mistakes.
the librarian doesn't really have to do anything. and this was over a decade ago before i graduated.
this is why so many libraries have drag queen story hour... they organize shit like that instead of doing actual work.
university libraries increasingly started switching to RFID tags, so when you return the book, it passes through the passive gateway and the book is automatically inventoried. and since the person who manages putting the books back is usually student labor, the librarian is not even that.
you could check books out yourself, totally self serve with your student ID. the alarm would go off before you made it to the doors if you had a book that was no-removal or not checked out. the librarian wouldn't even stop you... security would, and most of the time it was innocent mistakes.
the librarian doesn't really have to do anything. and this was over a decade ago before i graduated.
this is why so many libraries have drag queen story hour... they organize shit like that instead of doing actual work.