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September 2005

TexShare Card Statistics for FY2005

The 2006 statistics will need to be submitted starting August 31, 2005.

Report TexShare Card statistics for the Period September 1, 2004 - August 31, 2005 here.

The TexShare Card Agreement calls for all statistics to be reported annually to the Texas State Library. The statistics should cover September 1, 2004 - August 31, 2005. If you have only participated for a few months, please report whatever use you have had.

September 2005

Message from the TexShare Card Working Group on Hurricane Katrina evacuees:

The TexShare Card Working Group encourages TexShare Card Program libraries to offer checkout and access privileges to evacuees from areas affected by Hurricane Katrina and subsequent flooding. Each library will want to consider what kinds of services it can appropriately offer, what identification it may require of the individuals who wish to obtain access, and what restrictions it may be obliged to place on privileges. The Working Group does not see a specific role for the TexShare Card in this situation, but hopes that participating libraries will be as liberal as their policies allow in granting access to evacuees.

February 2004

Materials checked out under the TexShare Card Program may be returned to the owning libraries via the TExpress courier service.

The TexShare Advisory Board has approved a recommendation by the TexShare Card Program Working Group and the TexShare Courier Service Working Group that materials checked out under the TexShare Card Program be may returned to the owning libraries via the TExpress courier service. The TexShare Card Program Agreement and the TExpress Shipping Guidelines will be revised to reflect this change.

The following conditions apply when this method of return is used:

  • Both the sending and the receiving library must participate in the courier service. The library which accepts a patron's books for return by courier must verify that the destination library has courier service. A list of libraries which use the courier service is available at : http://www.texshare.edu/programs/courier/librariesname.html
  • The books must be marked in some way as TexShare Card Program materials, to help distinguish them from regular inter-library loan materials. This will help expedite their routing to the circulation desk for check-in, especially in libraries where circulation and ILL are not in the same department.
    The Texas State Library staff has developed a .pdf format bookmark, based on the yellow flag formerly available from the State Library, which libraries may use to produce their own flags to identify Card Program books returned by TExpress. ( pdf's available here: http://www.texshare.edu/programs/courier/ or http://www.texshare.edu/programs/card/index.html)
  • Borrowers should be reminded that they remain responsible for the books until the books are checked in at the owning library, just as with returns by postal mail or other express mail service. They should plan ahead and allow a reasonable time before the due date for books to travel by courier and reach the destination library.
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