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Missing Items and Fines

by Casey

Jul 29, 2009

Hello,

I just had an interview for a teaching librarian position and I was asked the question, what creative ways could you work it out with students who owe fines or lost a book and do not have the money to pay? I know the person interviewing wanted to avoid the students losing library privleges for the year. It is also a poorer district. Any good suggestions because it got me to thinking?.

Thanks.

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Two-Year Plus Retiree Hi! One of my co-workers had a wonderful idea to solve that issue and it worked very well for us. Several times a year (usually at the end of the semesters), we had a program where we accepted canned food for fines. Each can was worth $1.00 toward paying fines no matter what they had paid for the canned food. Our students were from some pretty poor...See More

Jul 30, 2009

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Stephanie On 7/29/09, Casey wrote: > Hello, > > I just had an interview for a teaching librarian position > and I was asked the question, what creative ways could you > work it out with students who owe fines or lost a book and > do not have the money to pay? I know the person > interviewing wanted to avoid the students losing library &g...See More

Jul 31, 2009

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hmmm How are they going to pay for the canned food if they don't have any money????????

On 7/30/09, Two-Year Plus Retiree wrote: > Hi! One of my co-workers had a wonderful idea to solve that > issue and it worked very well for us. Several times a year > (usually at the end of the semesters), we had a program where > we accepted cann...See More

Aug 1, 2009

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Kevin On 8/01/09, hmmm wrote: > How are they going to pay for the canned food if they don't have > any money????????

Get it from the food bank, which it will then be donated back to, making the whole exercise rather pointless.

Replacement of missing books with random other books is not very helpful in a small library---most of th...See More

Aug 1, 2009

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Susie Oh my, i think to ask students to replace lost books with any new/gently used books is asking for books to get stolen from classroom libraries or other students!

I asked them to work in the library also. Can't go wrong with spending a little extra time getting to know them, and teaching them to be more respectful by caring for books.

Sep 7, 2009

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