we could create a micro chip tagging system, to keep track of all borrowers, (not the ones like Ian Holm, the other kind) the tags could contain information on books borrowed, credit history, blood type, and be linked to GPS. Or would that be over engineering compared to a box and a biro? Not to mention a little biblical and apocryphal.
Forget I even suggested it.
Rick
Look into my eyes, the eyes the eyes, not around the eyes.
>From: adam@thebowery.co.uk >To: main@lists.alug.org.uk >Subject: Re: [ALUG] Urgent - kind new home required! >Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 22:40:58 +0000 > >On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 10:25:44PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote: > > > > Or is that too complicated ? > >Unworkable imho, as you need nasty librarians with sticks to tell people >what to do with books and when. Also it just gets very complicated, Alug >has suffered a bit in the past when who had which book got out of track >(this was before we took the library over again) and tracking them all >down again took quite a bit of legwork. > >Adam >-- >jabberid = quinophex@jabber.earth.li >AFFS || http://www.affs.org.uk/ || Not a filesystem > >_______________________________________________ >main@lists.alug.org.uk >http://www.alug.org.uk/ >http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main >Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above!