nearly all libraries have a ghost, but medical libraries frequently have a ghost and a skeleton
i’ve been reminded that most people don’t know about the ghost
‘ghost reading’ means collecting usage stats for books which are used within the library, without being checked out (which would automatically generate usage data).
This is often done by checking out the book to a dummy user account belonging to The Library Ghost before it’s reshelved. (After being returned ofc. Ghosts read very fast.)
Due to ghost reading, most libraries ask that you do not return books to the shelves yourself, even if you’re confident of where they go - there will instead be somewhere they’ll ask you to leave them (or just leave them out on a surface somewhere) so they can be collected and ghost read.
I knew about leaving books out after you read them, but I didn't know about the ghost account thing! Thank you for explaining that 👍
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