Digital Library Cards

Thu Apr 11 18:02:32 EDT 2013

Something to consider with driver's license numbers and computerized records
involves the State Laws.

Notification must be provided if the entity {library} reasonably believes
the system {ILS} was breached, if we have the following stored.

As the drivers' license numbers would be acting as library card numbers, it
would be linked to the patrons' name.

Under Pennsylvania law:

Pennsylvania Statutes 

Title 73 - Trade and Commerce 

Chapter 43 - Breach of Personal Information Notification Act

"Personal information." 

(1) An individual's first name or first initial and last name in combination
with 

and linked to any one or more of the following data elements when the data 

elements are not encrypted or redacted: 

(i) Social Security number. 

(ii) Driver's license number or a State identification card number issued in

lieu of a driver's license. 

(iii) Financial account number, credit or debit card number, in 

combination with any required security code, access code or password that 

would permit access to an individual's financial account.

James Gilbert, BS, MLIS

Systems Librarian

Whitehall Township Public Library

3700 Mechanicsville Road

Whitehall, PA 18052

610-432-4339 ext: 203

From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On
Behalf Of Thomas Edelblute
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 5:10 PM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Digital Library Cards

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
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Digital Library Cards

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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