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In my neck of the woods, the warning is a summons to appear in court. Could you imagine someone ignoring a court summons?
Is that the first warning? No letter? no e-mail? We get an e-mail reminder 3 days before the books are due. Once a book is overdue, we get another e-mail. I've never let it go past that notice, so I don't know what would come next. I used to work for local govt. and we sent numerous letters and warnings. I mean NUMEROUS. No way could someone be unaware there was an issue until a cop showed up.
Is that the first warning? No letter? no e-mail? We get an e-mail reminder 3 days before the books are due. Once a book is overdue, we get another e-mail. I've never let it go past that notice, so I don't know what would come next. I used to work for local govt. and we sent numerous letters and warnings. I mean NUMEROUS. No way could someone be unaware there was an issue until a cop showed up.
The library isn't the government though. I have no idea what they do these days with email being so common. Before email, they didn't send letters or make phone calls. That's too costly for a nonprofit, even moreso these days with grants and funding being cut for libraries. They'd search their system a couple times a year and turn the most overdue over to the magistrate. Since it's criminal, it doesn't cost them anything because they don't have to pay filing fees. The magistrate's office would send a court summons and people would go running to the library to pay their fees before the court day to avoid having to appear. If they didn't pay or appear in court, the cops most certainly would have shown up but I've never heard of it happening here. It was a very efficient and effective tactic. When it happens to people, word gets around and everyone is more attentive at returning books and paying fees. This news story will serve that same purpose for this library. Around here, it was just word of mouth, never made the news. I can't imagine parents calling the news. Few people would want to call attention to their not paying their library fines. LOL
The library isn't the government though. I have no idea what they do these days with email being so common. Before email, they didn't send letters or make phone calls. That's too costly for a nonprofit, even moreso these days with grants and funding being cut for libraries. They'd search their system a couple times a year and turn the most overdue over to the magistrate. Since it's criminal, it doesn't cost them anything because they don't have to pay filing fees. The magistrate's office would send a court summons and people would go running to the library to pay their fees before the court day to avoid having to appear. If they didn't pay or appear in court, the cops most certainly would have shown up but I've never heard of it happening here. It was a very efficient and effective tactic. When it happens to people, word gets around and everyone is more attentive at returning books and paying fees. This news story will serve that same purpose for this library. Around here, it was just word of mouth, never made the news. I can't imagine parents calling the news. Few people would want to call attention to their not paying their library fines. LOL
The library isn't the government though. I have no idea what they do these days with email being so common. Before email, they didn't send letters or make phone calls. That's too costly for a nonprofit, even moreso these days with grants and funding being cut for libraries. They'd search their system a couple times a year and turn the most overdue over to the magistrate. Since it's criminal, it doesn't cost them anything because they don't have to pay filing fees. The magistrate's office would send a court summons and people would go running to the library to pay their fees before the court day to avoid having to appear. If they didn't pay or appear in court, the cops most certainly would have shown up but I've never heard of it happening here. It was a very efficient and effective tactic. When it happens to people, word gets around and everyone is more attentive at returning books and paying fees. This news story will serve that same purpose for this library. Around here, it was just word of mouth, never made the news. I can't imagine parents calling the news. Few people would want to call attention to their not paying their library fines. LOL
When i was a kid we got little postcards for overdo books. And the library is part of the government since your tax dollars pay for it :-P.
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