The access cards debuted in April and allow patrons to use the library’s self-checkout machines and log into the touch-screen kiosks to pay overdue balances, reserve time on library computers, or pay for library photocopies. “We have issued a total of 322,833 ABC cards so far,” said BPL Executive Director Ginnie Cooper in a November 1 announcement of the award, “which demonstrates that the new ABC card is a big hit in Brooklyn.”
The card system—which uses technology and services from Xerox, Dell, and Citibank—will be the focus of a Xerox nationwide marketing campaign aimed at urban public libraries.
Posted November 5, 2004.