[aisle] Lost book fees

Mon Apr 26 14:15:03 CDT 2021

This happened to us.  When I started working in this district, I sent the fines to the registrar.  If they collected it over the summer, I would not get the money. There was no account for that on their end.  It just went to general funds.  So I started to leave the fines and lost books on their library accounts until their senior year.  I was more likely to get the money if the students had more time to pay and we could collect it ourselves before students got yearbooks and caps and gowns.

Jennifer Bromann-Bender
Librarian
Lincoln-Way West High School
21701 S. Gougar Rd.
New Lenox, IL 60451
815-717-3551
jbromann-bender at lw210.org<mailto:jbromann-bender at lw210.org>

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Subject: [aisle] Lost book fees

I don’t want this to turn into a discussion about IF we should be charging fees – it’s more an administration question.

If your fines and/or fees are collected by someone else in your building or district, do you ever see that money to buy replacement books?  Our bookstore can collect library fees for lost material, but if a student or parent pays the bookstore, I was told the money has to roll over into the general income fund and cannot be put into an account for the library to use to purchase new/replacement materials.  So a student can lose a book and pay, but I never get money to buy a new copy of the book.

Is this just an odd policy my district has in place, or is this some sort of business/budgeting requirement school districts must follow?

Gail Meyer, Librarian

TF South High School, Lansing, IL

gmeyer at tfd215.org<mailto:gmeyer at tfd215.org>

708.585.2197

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