<div dir="ltr"><div>Riffing on part of James' comment: It might be easy/cheap to spray paint the bikes in such a way as to make them extremely distinctive and perhaps even just unpleasant enough to be somewhat undesirable to keep/steal...but yet not too embarrassing to ride. Or even just go all-out and make the whole thing hot pink with the library's name stenciled on a crossbar. It doesn't necessarily address the original question, but it <u>might</u> help be a mild theft deterrent. </div><div><br></div><div>I don't know if it's a good idea or a bad idea. It just popped into my head when I was reading the thread, so I figured I'd put it out there.</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck!</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>______________________________<br><b>Chad Neeper</b><br><font size="1">Senior Systems Engineer</font><br><br><b>Level 9 Networks</b><br><font size="1">740-548-8070 (voice)<br>866-214-6607 (fax)</font><br><br><font size="1"><i>Full IT/Computer consulting services -- Specialized in public libraries</i></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM James Hill via OPLINLIST <<a href="mailto:oplinlist@lists.oplin.org">oplinlist@lists.oplin.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-4684359676696621748">
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We don't have tracking devices, but our bike share is a little different than others; it does have a bluetooth lock that tells us when it's locked, but not it's minute-by-minute location. </div>
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We partnered with the Health District and city transit department and have kiosks at the library and within the community. If you're doing internal-only checkouts, it won't be hard to keep track of who has which bike. I will add that, if possible, try to get
a bike that pretty different than anything commonly seen in town, that way if a bike does go missing it will be quickly recognizable by the police.</div>
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Concerning reporting theft, that's hard to do. Locally our police will try to retrieve a bike when needed, but we haven't successfully been able to treat it as theft without going to small claims court. The rationale is that it's not theft if you gave the patron
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This is the company we've used for our bike share in Chillicothe: <a href="https://onbikeshare.com/" id="m_-9080710537265943499LPlnk891853" target="_blank">
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I'm happy to answer any other questions. Feel free to call or email.</div>
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We are starting a bike share program with the Clark County Combined Health District. The Health District has received grant funds to purchase items to begin a pilot program in Clark County.</div>
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Our question, due to the cost of these items, does any library that circulates bikes put a tracking device on the bike to help in recovery if it is not returned in a timely fashion? The bikes would still belong to the Health District and the Library would
be the distribution point circulating the bikes in a normal library manner. The person I am working with at the Health Dept has stated that she would have no problem filing a police report to get their property (the bike) back after a predetermined overdue
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