Libraries on the book case for overdue fines
December 26th, 2009Boston Herald – “The value of the materials is fairly high. We need to replace them,” said Martha Holden, director of the Peabody Institute Library, which has sent the law after a trio of overdue culprits. The Peabody library filed criminal complaints against 19-year-old Alyssa Toste and 23-year-old Jeramie Crane on Dec. 15. Despite repeated notices, both Toste and Crane failed to return more than $500 worth of overdue books, DVDs, music CDs, books on tape and other items, Holden said.”
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December 26th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Good for the Library…we lose so much money (via late fees) and materials due to theft, non-returns and duplicate records…that if we were a for-profit business, we’d have gone belly-up decades ago.
The confusing thing is…for the life of me I can still not comprehend why people think it’s justified to rip-off the library, after all it’s mostly free!