At Abingdon library a new system for scanning books is to be introduced within a few weeks. Most of the books downstairs have a yellow sticker …

indicating they have already been chipped.

Borrowers will put their stack of books down on a reader and it will book them all out, or back in again.

The current system invoves librarians swiping a bar code, and stamping a date inside the book. With the new system fewer librarians will be required.

btw. Last year I always got an e-mail reminder a day or two before books were due back. Very clever I thought, but it did not happen this time.