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<div>At Bellevue, we forgave every fine less than $3, and moving forward will never place a registration hold on any student with a fine of less than $5. </div>
<div>We also forgave any fine associated with weeded materials or surplussed equipment. We didn’t forgive our largest fines which were on lost or damaged laptops.</div>
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<div>We have just completed a huge weeding project getting rid of all our older periodicals (we now save only 3 years of our print titles), as well as all of our cassette tapes, VHS tapes and all of our microfilm holdings. We are also surplussing many of our
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<div>Conversion is our mission ;)</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>LIBRARYDIR <<a href="mailto:librarydir-bounces@lists.ctc.edu">librarydir-bounces@lists.ctc.edu</a>> on behalf of "Waite, Amy" <<a href="mailto:AWaite@clark.edu">AWaite@clark.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>WACTC Library Directors <<a href="mailto:librarydir@lists.ctc.edu">librarydir@lists.ctc.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 4:15 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>WACTC Library Directors <<a href="mailto:librarydir@lists.ctc.edu">librarydir@lists.ctc.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [LIBRARYDIR] forgiving old fines/fees<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> At Clark College, we now forgive fines and fees that are older than 3 years which also matches our cycle for deleting bib records
for lost items from the catalog. Prior to ALMA migration, we kept fees and fines up to 5 years but it was time-consuming for staff to manually track registration blocks with very little results for things out that long. We only refund the replacement cost
of the item for up to 6 months from the payment date on the advice of the auditor and do not make any refunds of fines or billing/processing fees.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Amy Waite<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Access Services Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Clark Libraries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">1933 Fort Vancouver Way/ LIB 112<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Vancouver, WA 98663<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">360-992-2152<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> LIBRARYDIR [<a href="mailto:librarydir-bounces@lists.ctc.edu">mailto:librarydir-bounces@lists.ctc.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mindy Coslor</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">,
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 11, 2015 12:21 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> WACTC Library Directors <<a href="mailto:librarydir@lists.ctc.edu">librarydir@lists.ctc.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [LIBRARYDIR] forgiving old fines/fees<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">We can forgive fines (and often do), but never a replacement fee for a lost item. My Business Office would not permit what they would call “gifting
of public funds.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Mindy Coslor, Ph.D.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Director of Library Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Skagit Valley College<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">2405 E. College Way<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Mount Vernon, WA 98273</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><a href="mailto:360.416.7761/mcoslor@skagit.edu">360.416.7761/mcoslor@skagit.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"> LIBRARYDIR [<a href="mailto:librarydir-bounces@lists.ctc.edu">mailto:librarydir-bounces@lists.ctc.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Howard Fuller<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 11, 2015 10:46 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'WACTC Library Directors'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [LIBRARYDIR] forgiving old fines/fees<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Yes. At some point it costs more to pursue the collection of the fine than the amount of the fine itself. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">We’ve no firm date of when we halt collections, but with the migration we will be clearing most fine collections unless they are of non-library owned
equipment and even then we sometimes forgive the fine if the equipment is no longer used in any courses (and the department of ownership has no interest in collecting it).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Howard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> LIBRARYDIR [<a href="mailto:librarydir-bounces@lists.ctc.edu">mailto:librarydir-bounces@lists.ctc.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Sue Kennedy<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 11, 2015 10:36 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:librarydir@lists.ctc.edu">librarydir@lists.ctc.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [LIBRARYDIR] forgiving old fines/fees<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;">Hi all!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;">Do you forgive really old fines/fees? And if so, how old do they have to be?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;">Shellie just helped us with a patron purge, and we still have loads of records. Thinking ahead to migration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black;">Sue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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