Sara's mom was on the ball with this one:
When I was growing up, my mother always insisted we checkout library books in multiples of 5. That way, when the time came to gather up the books to take back, we knew we had them all, without having to remember exactly how many we had checked out.
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These days, I find many libraries will let you see what you've checked out, and renew, online.
Posted by: Allen Knutson | 17 April 2006 at 07:23 PM
Yeah, I used to impose number limits but now I don't worry about it because I can log on to our library website and see a list of every book we have checked out and when it is due. I can renew our books online. I can also make requests for books I want them to hold for us to pick up on our next visit as well.
Posted by: momma2mingbu | 18 April 2006 at 04:55 AM
As a librarian, I also suggest having a card for each child so they know what they are responsible for.
And at my house, I have a basket where the library books live whenever they are not in my hands.
Posted by: kittenpie | 18 April 2006 at 06:24 PM
Yeah...we outgrew out basket. Now it's a large plastic bin that sits in the living room not far from the front door. All the children's library books live there except whatever chapter book my oldest is reading. My library books live in a magazine rack near the recliner.
Posted by: momma2mingbu | 19 April 2006 at 05:19 PM
My kids are proud to have their own cards, but I ended up having to prohibit their use and require my kids to check everything out on my card: that's the only way I can get an inventory of everything that needs to be rounded up and returned or renewed.
Now if the library's website would tie our accounts together and give me admin privileges over my kids' cards, that would be a different story.
There may be good privacy reasons for letting kids have their own cards, especially adolescents, but probably not seven-year-olds who lose books in the oddest places and don't yet earn enough allowance to replace them. :-)
Posted by: Prentiss Riddle | 24 April 2006 at 04:29 PM
What I really want is something like RFID chips in the books and a book-dowsing device that beeps as you approach a library book. Our library's online access is out of the Dark Ages, no email or RSS available. Between all that and transportation issues, I had to give up.
http://www.pateys.nf.ca/weblog/diary/libraries.html
Posted by: Heather Patey | 31 May 2006 at 09:00 AM