[Michlib-l] Video games

[maureen at romeodistrictlibrary.org]

We keep an empty case with a copy of the same cover and with DISPLAY 
printed boldly in yellow across the cover in the stacks in a designated 
area.  The patron brings the empty case up and we swap it for the real 
case with the actual game in it to check out to the patron.  The actual 
games and cases are kept on a cart behind the circulation desk.  When a 
patron checks a game out we place the empty case horizontally in the 
same spot the actual game was kept.  When the game is returned and 
checked in,  the case with the game goes back on the cart standing 
vertically, while the empty case goes back out on the shelf. So far this 
system has worked well for us.  We have Wii, PlayStation 2, 3 and 4 and 
XBox and Xbox One.  When we ran out of room on the cart, the PlayStation 
2 games were put out on the shelf instead of an empty case.

-- 
Maureen Swanwick
Head of Circulation
Romeo District Library