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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. </div>
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<div><font color="#993300" size="2" face="Adobe Garamond Pro">Jennifer Bromann-Bender</font></div>
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<div><font color="#800000" size="2" face="Adobe Garamond Pro"><font color="#993300">Lincoln-Way West High School</font>
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<div><font size="2" face="Adobe Garamond Pro">21701 S. Gougar Rd.</font></div>
<div><font color="#993300" size="2" face="Adobe Garamond Pro">New Lenox, IL 60451</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Adobe Garamond Pro">815-717-3551</font></div>
<div><font color="#993300" size="2" face="Adobe Garamond Pro"><a href="mailto:jbromann-bender@lw210.org">jbromann-bender@lw210.org</a></font></div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> AISLE <aisle-bounces@list.railslibraries.info> on behalf of Meyer, Gail via AISLE <aisle@list.railslibraries.info><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 26, 2021 1:59 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> AISLE-Share: Association of Illinois School Library Educators discussion list <aisle@list.railslibraries.info><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Meyer, Gail <GMeyer@tfd215.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [aisle] Lost book fees</font>
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I don’t want this to turn into a discussion about IF we should be charging fees – it’s more an administration question.</p>
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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.
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Is this just an odd policy my district has in place, or is this some sort of business/budgeting requirement school districts must follow?</p>
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Gail Meyer, Librarian</p>
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TF South High School, Lansing, IL</p>
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<a href="mailto:gmeyer@tfd215.org">gmeyer@tfd215.org</a></p>
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708.585.2197</p>
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