Catch... and release

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One of the most vexing pieces of library outreach is doing a presentation, getting people all excited about library resources, and then navigating the shoals of getting a library card into their hands. My library has an online application for city resident cards but if a person wanted (or needed) to get a library card through their business, the only option was the paper route.

Until now.

With the help of Google documents, I put together an online form that gathers the necessary information, dumps the data into a spreadsheet for easy cutting/pasting into Dynix, and voila! a new library card is born.

Here's the form:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dEVBU2xOdzRZMU1pSldUQmJRTkhZaGc6MQ#gid=0

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