Book dating and provenance.

The checkout procedures have changed since the installation of the barcode scanner, which is expected. There had been physically removable due date cards in actual pockets before the computer database, and after it was first installed, they fell out of use. More noticeable and unexplained is the fact that an individual building in the system has always attached a short location label, but they are now not being affixed on new purchases and circulate freely from building to building. The barcode states which system the book belongs in, there is no longer a physical ink stamp on the inside front cover, and the branch identity isn't annotated. Obfuscations of author, publication, and date of publication on new library volumes, especially in fiction books and edited collections are causing copyright and authenticity problems under the law, and originality is widely questionable.