This is because the users cannot use it, so it is useless for the Library. This is the reason for they don t need passwords or control areas. The people who work with the system they are always people how work in the Library. There are no people out the Library that have access to the computers. Besides, there are cataloguing mode and statistics.
All system use Icelandic language.
The system has the layout as lists. They though that this way it is easier for the librarian, who is the person who has to select a book for the user. The process is the following. The librarian, with the user on the telephone, goes to the patron list and finds the user. Then he gets a list of books that the user haven t read yet.