{"id":3273,"date":"2010-02-04T01:35:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T05:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=3273"},"modified":"2010-02-04T01:35:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T05:35:56","slug":"the-7-per-cent-self-checkout-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/04\/the-7-per-cent-self-checkout-solution.html","title":{"rendered":"The 7-per-cent Self-Checkout Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kirkendall Public Library in Ankeny, Iowa wanted to install a self-checkout system.\u00a0 The $23,000 price tag meant that, at best, they would need to wait until they could raise the money to purchase the system.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Melton, circulation librarian and tech support for the library, came up with a solution:\u00a0 he built a self-check system for $1,500, less than 7% of the quoted cost for a purchased system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20100202\/NEWS\/2020311\/-1\/AMES\/Enterprising-Ankeny-librarian-builds-money-saving-kiosk\"><strong>Enterprising Ankeny librarian builds money-saving kiosk<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How many opportunities can be discovered to save money in how we operate our libraries?\u00a0 For most libraries, this is becoming more critical than ever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>found via <a href=\"http:\/\/link.ixs1.net\/s\/ve?eli=l530741&amp;si=u219523601&amp;cfc=3html\">AL Direct <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kirkendall Public Library in Ankeny, Iowa wanted to install a self-checkout system.\u00a0 The $23,000 price tag meant that, at best, they would need to wait until they could raise the money to purchase the system. Eric Melton, circulation librarian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/04\/the-7-per-cent-self-checkout-solution.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2940,2943,2948,2966],"tags":[5146,5135,3225,5148,5147,5149,5150,4378],"class_list":["post-3273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ils","category-libraries","category-news","category-software","tag-ankeny-iowa","tag-businessfinance","tag-iowa","tag-kirkendall-public-library","tag-self-checkout","tag-self-check","tag-tech-support","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-QN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}