[aisle] To lend or not to lend (headphones)

[Kari S]

We've gone to just free earbuds. I buy the super cheap ones (100 for like
$50) and just give them away. I get a couple requests a week but we are a
high school and most have their own.

I will still check out class sets of regular headphones to teachers as
needed for the class but when an individual student needs them we just do
the free earbuds. If we felt like we were syphoning money with it we could
charge $1-2 for them.

On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 at 12:23, Kori Wentzloff via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if anyone had any advice or success with lending
> headphones.  They are a "required" school supply here and yet many students
> forget them.  Daily we have several students who come in and borrow a pair
> for an assignment, to listen to something while they work or any other
> number of reasons.  I don't love lending them out to individual students.
> I have heard of some methods where a librarian may have a box of 10 for *teacher
> *checkout, but don't lend to individual students sporadically throughout
> the day.
>
> I was just hoping someone had some creative ideas for making this less of
> a problem in the library.
>
> Thanks!
> Kori
>
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*Kari Stevenson*
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