{"id":8721,"date":"2021-02-16T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=8721"},"modified":"2021-02-16T13:49:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T21:49:07","slug":"borrowing-history-of-library-books-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2021\/02\/16\/borrowing-history-of-library-books-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Borrowing History of Library Books in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one way to keep track of the books you&#8217;ve borrowed from the library. Many libraries in California do not let you view your checkout history, citing California law that mandates the confidentiality of borrowing records. I can understand that but I wish my local library let me choose.<\/p>\n<p>My library, and thousands of others use a service called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libraryelf.com\/base\/Libraries.aspx\">Library Elf<\/a>. I see a few main benefits:<br \/>\n* view consolidated library accounts&#8230; ie. see if your daughter&#8217;s account has overdue books<br \/>\n* see a history of the books you&#8217;ve checked out<br \/>\n* get nice email reminders of almost-due books<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using it for about 2 months and it works pretty well. It&#8217;s free for me because my library subscribes to it. It might be free for you too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one way to keep track of the books you&#8217;ve borrowed from the library. Many libraries in California do not let you view your checkout history, citing California law that mandates the confidentiality of borrowing records. I can understand that but I wish my local library let me choose. My library, and thousands of others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}