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Dear Margaret,

Here at the Vancouver Art Gallery (The Gallery staff is c.60 and the
library is 37,000 vols)  Gallery Staff members, both full time and part
time, are allowed to borrow books from the library for use in the building.
Needless to say the 'in the building' part does get abused from time to
time.  There has been a bit of a problem with staff members borrowing books
for 'friends'.

Volunteers, docents, and contract personnel are not allowed to borrow
things from the library.  We have created some small special groups of
books that circulate to docents (these books have been purchased by the
Education Department).  I was previously the librarian at the Vancouver
Aquarium, and they had quite an extensive Docent Library that was a
circulating collection.  The Librarian catalogued things and the docents
took care of circulation procedures, overdues, etc.

We are very relaxed about all of this and, because we are small and the
circulation is fairly small, we have not had any big problems.

Regards,
Cheryl

Cheryl Siegel
Librarian
Vancouver Art Gallery
750 Hornby St.
Vancouver, B.C.
CANADA
V6Z 2H7
phone (604) 662-4709
fax (604) 682-1086
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