[aisle] Missouri Chapter Statement on Elimination of Fines or Fees for Overdue and Lost Books

[Wagoner, Benjamin]

We do not charge for overdue books, but we do for lost materials.

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 1:03 PM Tasha Squires via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I have long hated charging students overdue fines. I'm glad I'm in a
> school district where it isn't a requirement. I work in a middle school
> with 7th and 8th graders. So no fine for overdue books. In terms of lost
> books, I tell the students they have until the very end of the school year
> to find the book and get it back to me. I don't want them to be afraid to
> come into the school library because they are worried they have a lost
> book. IF at the end of the year they still have it lost, or have books that
> aren't returned, we do have the power to hold their yearbooks until the
> last day of school as an incentive to get the books back. IF however, they
> still don't pay for the lost book, or return it, we obviously give them
> their yearbooks.
>
> I will say there are books I don't get back and it is what it is. We have
> students that the counselors let me know won't be able to pay for it and I
> just mark them as lost and stop asking the student about them. Typically in
> a school of between 450 and 500 I don't get back maybe 10 books and those
> aren't paid for.
>
> Honestly, if my school were in a district where I felt like it would be a
> hardship, I probably would only ask like once for the book to be paid for
> and if it wasn't then I would let it drop.
>
>
> --
> Tasha Squires
> O'Neill Middle School
> School Librarian
> tsquires at dg58.org
> (630) 719-5815
>
> Author of Library Partnerships: Making Connections Between School and
> Public Libraries, 2009, Information Today, Inc.
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