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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ridiculous. No one is in the library so why can’t books be returned to sit there? Viruses don’t live on surfaces for more than a couple days.[/quote]

Please go back and read earlier posts in this thread, which include posts from librarians about why there are not endless bins to receive books dropped through dropoff slots. You note that "no one is in the library" so you get that librarians are not there. What do you think will happen if books are pushed through return slots? Usually the books fall into a waiting bin on wheels. Those bins fill up; then what happens when there is no one there to wheel them away and replace with an empty bin? Overflow, and damage to books, DVDs etc. as more pile on top of them. And if you think someone ought to come in just to move a new bin in place--libraries don't have enough bins to leave things sitting in those bins to "quarantine;" they'd have to empty bins, which defeats the whole purpose of not having librarians handling recently delivered books.

Please keep your books until returns start again. Sorry you find that ridiculous but libraries don't have magical self-emptying bins yet. [/quote]

There's no need to be so snarky. I would think librarians would be happy to know so many people would like to continue to use their services. It's disappointing to a lot of us that libraries in the DMV haven't yet figured out how to safely provide access to physical books. [/quote]

I'm a librarian.  And I assure you, I have been working during all of this.  Maybe not checking out books, but there's quite a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that goes on at a library.  And I've been doing that.

Exactly. They could keep half the branches closed and consolidate bins in the open branches.

I agree with a PP that librarians have no incentive to make something work since they’re being paid to not work. I don’t begrudge them that, but why would they try to be innovative and do extra work when they don’t have to? [/quote][/quote]

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