Last week I posted to let you know that Canterbury Cards produced in 2016 could not be used to photocopy. (They are set up for Follow Me Printing which has been delayed).

ITS’s solution has been to disable the diebold devices attached to each photocopier. ie. make photocopying free.

However, if this solution proves to be too expensive for ITS (ie students find out and start photocopying anything and everything), they will turn photocopying off and ask all users to scan to email (and then print if required). This could easily happen as all photocopiers can now print in A3 and colour. Ensuring copyrights are respected is another issue.

If photocopying is turned off,  casual users of the library will have no photocopying access.

So, please please do not publicise to our users that photocopying is free. If someone asks for assistance with photocopying, show them what to do and let them know that copying charges will be reinstated shortly.

I will keep talking to ITS about solutions for our casual library users.