We have been slowly (painfully by times), but surely digitizing our Bruce Law Association - Bruce County Law Library collection management system, using an online program platform called Libib.
Once we have the system totally up and running, you will check books out and check them back in, using a hand-held scanner attached to the computer on the table at the end of the stacks, in the room right outside the office, to scan a QR Code (similar to the sample below) located on the spine and front cover of the book - pretty much like using a "self-check-out" at a retail store.
As mentioned, we are still in the process of entering older titles into the system. The most recent and most relevant titles are being input first. Older and less current titles will be entered last.
The present plan is that, if you are wanting to check out a book that is not yet in the system, you will be able to type in the "KF Call Number" from the label on the spine, into a field on the computer screen. E.g.. "KF 1682 F85 1999 BRUC" (Which is "Agriculture Law in Canada" by Robert S. Fuller & Donald E. Buckingham).
You will also eventually be sent a QR Code of your own Personal Library Code. We will email this to you (so you can save it somewhere you can find it), and we will also mail you a label with the code on it, which we suggest you stick on the back of your Walkerton Courthouse Access Card. You will have to Scan your Personal Library Card to identify who is checking out the book, and the Book QR Code when you check the book out.
As of today, we have 123 titles entered into the system presently, which includes every new title received since August 2022, plus a few (but growing number of) more recent titles from the the existing collection.
In the meantime, you can go online now, to search and see what we have received since last August, and what other newer / more relevant previously existing titles are in the system now, to see if there is anything recent that can help you with what you are looking for.
Also, don't forget you can always go online to the LSO "Info Locate" to search for titles,. There, you can see if our Bruce County Law Library has a copy (unless it has been borrowed and not returned), or which of the other 47 Law Libraries across the Province "does" have a copy. If we don't have it, and some other County or Regional Library does, we can get it for you for 2 weeks, through the Inter-Library Loan Program.
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