Circulation in the Time of Covid-19
Once it became clear that the two-week quarantine was going to extend just a bit longer than originally imagined, Circulation staff at Davis and Armstrong Libraries realized that they needed to come up with a plan to keep offering library services to patrons. We implemented a paging system by which patrons could request the books they wanted via the online catalog. Circulation staff would pull the books from the shelves, check them out, pack them in brown paper bags to comply with library privacy laws (library patron records are confidential by federal law) and place them in the library vestibule for easy pickup.