People checking items out at the Everett Public Library’s two branches soon will be able to do so themselves.
The library is getting ready to install self-checkers sometime after Thanksgiving — two at the main branch and one at the Evergreen Branch. Library director Eileen Simmons told me it should be easier than those self-scanners at the grocery store. You scan your library card and then the item.
The library’s board has wanted this technology since at least 2007. It got shoved to the back burner when the economy went south. The library staff found the $25,000 to purchase the scanners in its operating budget. The scanners save staff time when more people are checking out books, but the library’s staff is shrinking, she said.
For those who’d rather do things the old fashioned way, a staff person will still be on hand to check out materials.
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