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The obvious counterargument: When I was in primary school, we used paper and pencil cards to track items which were borrowed from the library. Why were barcodes
by cbhl 14y ago
The obvious counterargument: When I was in primary school, we used paper and pencil cards to track items which were borrowed from the library. Why were barcodes and magnetic strips aggressively pushed when there was tech perfectly capable of performing the duties outlined?
Part of me thinks forcing this on a child is insane. Part of me realizes that I already have agreed to monitoring of this sort in fragmented ways: HID RFID badges to get into my residence building at university and into buildings during work terms; NFC for payments and my transit fare card; Google location history on my phone.
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- iamdave 14y agoWhy were barcodes and magnetic strips aggressively pushed when there was tech perfectly capable of performing the duties outlined? Good question, my immediate thought though-as a library assistant in school (because fuck yeah being a bookworm as a kid) is that the school library system was probably better served using this tech electronically; saves time, minimizes documentation errors, and as a result minimizes cost replacing books that went 'missing'.