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Library board approves change letting local libraries decide whether to keep paper card applications
Summary
The Delaware County Library Board approved an update to the countywide automation policy allowing individual libraries to decide whether to retain or destroy paper library-card applications after electronic patron records are created; the Office of Commonwealth Libraries and the county solicitor found no state or county requirement to keep the applications.
The Delaware County Library Board voted to approve an update to its countywide automation policy that removes a blanket requirement to retain paper library-card applications and instead gives each member library discretion over whether to destroy them after creating an electronic patron record.
Annie, the system administrator, told the board the policy committee conferred with the…
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