"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
...
> On 2015-07-28 1:14 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 12:53:31 PM UTC-4, Sal Paradise wrote:
>>
>>> Libraries used to hand out place markers, or ask you use the card as
>>> such.
>>>
>>> No more?
>>
>> Card? I haven't seen a card in a library book in 25 or 30 years. It's
>> all computerized now.
>>
>>
>
> I don't know if it is quite that long, but the card did not come home with
> the book. It stayed at the library so they knew you had the book.
>
> I have to wonder which system was better. I get email notices if books or
> DVDs are due, but I have also had notices about books due that I never
> took out or that I had never taken out. I have tried to renew books online
> that the system said I did not have.

I have a library card. Looks like a credit card. Never used it.