Digital Library Cards

Thu Apr 11 17:31:29 EDT 2013

I hope I'm not helping to steer the original question off topic, but what policies and agreements do California and Michigan libraries have in place that govern data security for personally identifiable information in library card registration databases?

Pennsylvania has a state statute (73 PS 2301 - Breach of Personal Information Notification Act) which includes information such as social security numbers, driver license numbers and credit/debit card numbers. Because of liabilities related to this act, we deleted all Driver License information from our database. We view it to verify identity and residency, but we don't store the information.

Our barcode scanners won't read phones, but we also determined that someone could simply "steal" a barcode number from another borrower and add it to their app without taking their actual card. For that reason, if borrowers choose to show us a digital card, we also must see photo ID. (Same reason we don't let them rattle off the 14-digit number to us.)

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From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Thomas Edelblute
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 5:10 PM
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Do your driver licenses have a barcode, or are you scanning the magnetic strip into your ILS system to bring up the patron?  I hope you are not typing it in by hand.  We are a library system that serves an average of 1700 people per day so we can get quite busy and need to move people through the lines quickly.

Thomas Edelblute
Public Access Systems Coordinator
Anaheim Public Library

From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Wiggins
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 10:18 PM
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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<mailto: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<mailto: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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