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Rumor has it that a few of you complain every time you have to flash your ID to check out a book or pick up your printout. If your ID picture is like mine, then I don’t blame you for not wanting to show your ID. But (there’s always a but, isn’t there?) we have to make sure you are who you say you are for two very important reasons.

First, we have to make sure that we are checking out items to the right person. The library staff does not know everyone on campus so you could give us any name when you check out books and we wouldn’t know that you weren’t who you said you were. That’s why you have to show your ID.

Second, YOU, you lucky USAO student (unlike students at some other universities in Oklahoma who will remain nameless), don’t have to pay for you printouts if you show us your ID. So, ID = free printing, no ID = no free printing. Surely a freebie like that is worth showing us your ID, no matter how bad you look in the photo.