[LIBRARYDIR] forgiving old fines/fees

Tue Aug 11 18:32:13 PDT 2015

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.
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.

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 media center holding of older cameras, broken laptops, slide carousels, and other older, unused technology.

Conversion is our mission ;)

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Vivienne McClendon, Ph.D., MLIS
Dean, Library Media Center, D260H
Bellevue College  |  425.564.3056  |
Bellevue, WA 98007-6484
vivienne.mcclendon at bellevuecollege.edu<emailto:%20vivienne.mcclendon at bellevuecollege.edu>

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From: LIBRARYDIR <librarydir-bounces at lists.ctc.edu<mailto:librarydir-bounces at lists.ctc.edu>> on behalf of "Waite, Amy" <AWaite at clark.edu<mailto:AWaite at clark.edu>>
Reply-To: WACTC Library Directors <librarydir at lists.ctc.edu<mailto:librarydir at lists.ctc.edu>>
Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 4:15 PM
To: WACTC Library Directors <librarydir at lists.ctc.edu<mailto:librarydir at lists.ctc.edu>>
Subject: Re: [LIBRARYDIR] forgiving old fines/fees

Hi,

                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.

Regards,
Amy Waite
Access Services Manager
Clark Libraries
1933 Fort Vancouver Way/ LIB 112
Vancouver, WA 98663
360-992-2152

From: LIBRARYDIR [mailto:librarydir-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Mindy Coslor,
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 12:21 PM
To: WACTC Library Directors <librarydir at lists.ctc.edu<mailto:librarydir at lists.ctc.edu>>
Subject: Re: [LIBRARYDIR] forgiving old fines/fees

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."

Mindy Coslor, Ph.D.
Director of Library Services
Skagit Valley College
2405 E. College Way
Mount Vernon, WA  98273
360.416.7761/mcoslor at skagit.edu<mailto:360.416.7761/mcoslor at skagit.edu>

From: LIBRARYDIR [mailto:librarydir-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Fuller
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 10:46 AM
To: 'WACTC Library Directors'
Subject: Re: [LIBRARYDIR] forgiving old fines/fees

Yes. At some point it costs more to pursue the collection of the fine than the amount of the fine itself.

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).

Howard

From: LIBRARYDIR [mailto:librarydir-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Sue Kennedy
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 10:36 AM
To: librarydir at lists.ctc.edu<mailto:librarydir at lists.ctc.edu>
Subject: [LIBRARYDIR] forgiving old fines/fees

Hi all!

Do you forgive really old fines/fees?  And if so, how old do they have to be?

Shellie just helped us with a patron purge, and we still have loads of records.  Thinking ahead to migration.

Thanks!

Sue
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