[ISLMA-Share] Emailing Parents

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     We send emails to students with mixed results, then 2nd notice emails,
and finally 3rd and last emails (listing the replacement book cost & noting
that parents will be contacted if the book isn't returned by a specific
date (usually about half a week later).
     We also send a list of "3rd,last" kids with book titles & costs to
their LA teachers, as verbal reminders from a 2nd adult work wonders.
     THEN, if no success, I email the parents asking them to encourage the
book's return so that we won't have to place a book replacement fee on
their child's acct. This is very effective, and when it doesn't work, the
fee goes on the child's account. (If not before, the fee gets paid when
they register in the fall.)
     However, most of these emails are personally-generated, especially the
parent one, not a Destiny thing. The personalization makes them more
effective, but probably not doable in a large school.
:) Kathy

On Tue, May 15, 2018, 3:18 PM Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> We email kids 1 day ahead of books being due with a reminder. We email
> kids on Friday morning with titles of books overdue. We email parents (with
> titles suppressed) on Sunday at noon. (We used to email parents on
> Wednesday mornings, but found all that did was make the phone ring off the
> hook with parents wanting to know what the titles were. And them being
> furious that we wouldn't share this. This way we can say the student
> received the title on Friday---and they can't call us because it's the
> weekend---and it's easier to just ask their kid.)
>
> I can't really compare to how this holds up next to paper because honestly
> I always sucked at the paper notices.
>
> Leah Krippner
> Librarian, Harlem High School
> I am currently reading *Dotmeme* by Mike A. Lancaster
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 3:01 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>> I'd like to get some input on emailing parents when their kiddos have
>> overdue books or library fines.
>>
>> Since we've gone more automated and paperless this year and are not
>> passing our paper overdue notices anymore, I've had so many students with
>> overdue books and fines than ever.  I have Follett Destiny set up to
>> generate email overdue notices to students every Monday, but the kids
>> simply aren't checking their emails.  This has been a problem all year
>> anyway for pretty much every teacher, not just the library,   But this is
>> getting ridiculous.  I have kids who checked books out in October and still
>> have not returned it.  And just an FYI, I have not been allowed to prevent
>> a student from checking out a book because of overdue books or fines.
>>
>> So... Is there anyone out there who has uploaded parent email addresses
>> into Destiny for the purpose of emailing their students overdue notices?
>> What has the parent  response been like?  Has anyone been afraid to do this
>> because of the Library Bill of Rights and student privacy issues?
>>
>> General thoughts from the collective intelligence?
>>
>> *Amanda Kuzminski*
>> *Library Media Specialist*
>> Orland Junior High School
>> Orland Park, IL
>> 708-364-4214
>>
>>
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>> number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.*
>> *    - Neil DeGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist*
>>
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On May 15, 2018 3:18 PM, "Email list for the Illinois School Library Media
Association" <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

We email kids 1 day ahead of books being due with a reminder. We email kids
on Friday morning with titles of books overdue. We email parents (with
titles suppressed) on Sunday at noon. (We used to email parents on
Wednesday mornings, but found all that did was make the phone ring off the
hook with parents wanting to know what the titles were. And them being
furious that we wouldn't share this. This way we can say the student
received the title on Friday---and they can't call us because it's the
weekend---and it's easier to just ask their kid.)

I can't really compare to how this holds up next to paper because honestly
I always sucked at the paper notices.

Leah Krippner
Librarian, Harlem High School
I am currently reading *Dotmeme* by Mike A. Lancaster

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 3:01 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Hello!
> I'd like to get some input on emailing parents when their kiddos have
> overdue books or library fines.
>
> Since we've gone more automated and paperless this year and are not
> passing our paper overdue notices anymore, I've had so many students with
> overdue books and fines than ever.  I have Follett Destiny set up to
> generate email overdue notices to students every Monday, but the kids
> simply aren't checking their emails.  This has been a problem all year
> anyway for pretty much every teacher, not just the library,   But this is
> getting ridiculous.  I have kids who checked books out in October and still
> have not returned it.  And just an FYI, I have not been allowed to prevent
> a student from checking out a book because of overdue books or fines.
>
> So... Is there anyone out there who has uploaded parent email addresses
> into Destiny for the purpose of emailing their students overdue notices?
> What has the parent  response been like?  Has anyone been afraid to do this
> because of the Library Bill of Rights and student privacy issues?
>
> General thoughts from the collective intelligence?
>
> *Amanda Kuzminski*
> *Library Media Specialist*
> Orland Junior High School
> Orland Park, IL
> 708-364-4214
>
>
> *No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, but a large
> number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.*
> *    - Neil DeGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist*
>
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