Digital Library Cards

[Richard Wiggins]

Why have library cards at all?  Why not just use the driver license as the
library card?

At least in my state, Michigan, you can, and likely have gotten, a
so-called State-ID as your alternative identification.

/rich


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Patricia Anderson <pfa at umich.edu> wrote:

> Looks like that's not a new idea, although it still seems to be fairly
> rare.
>
> Kevin Kelly talked about them in 2006:
> <http://kk.org/cooltools/archives/1285>
>
> Ed Vielmetti, here in Ann Arbor, picked up on the idea and brought it to
> the attention of people here. We have part of the idea implemented in our
> campus library, but not the app part.
>
> <http://vielmetti.typepad.com/superpatron/2006/06/cool_tool_digit.html>
>
> The closest thing I found to what you describe is this, using the CardStar
> app.
>
> <http://www.jericholibrary.org/digitalcard/index.pdf>
>
> Interesting!
>
>  - Patricia A.
>
> <http://www.jericholibrary.org/digitalcard/index.pdf>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Thomas Edelblute <TEdelblute at anaheim.net
> > wrote:
>
>>  At the Library Board Meeting one of our members suggested we look into
>> digital library cards, instead of having an actual card, patrons if they
>> choose could have something on their phone.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thomas Edelblute
>>
>> Public Access Systems Coordinator
>>
>> Anaheim Public Library
>>
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