What!?
No more need of Mr. Bookman?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9tP9fI2zbE
Library?
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I haven’t been in a library in years.
I hope they keep the EARLY return Jine
I gave up checking out items from my city library when they stopped waving the fines I incurred everytime their staff would shelve items without checking them back in. It would come to light whenever the next patron checked out the book.
It even happened to me with multi-CD sets, they’d scan one and say I still had the other 2 or 3 in the box.
Their staff wouldn’t do THEIR job and I refused to pay for their mistakes.
So, without giving a hit to Slate, what’s their solution to people not returning a book?
Renew the loan by phone. My library permitted this. My problem was their staff didn't do their job properly an assessed me fines for their repeated error when I would turn items in.
Late fees are a great motivator for procrastinators like me. DVDs are $1/day. Returned two DVDs three days late and the $6 charge was enough to make me remember to bring all materials back on time! The worst part was that we never found the time to watch them.
My eleven year old requests and checks out stacks of books every week. Early in her card holder days she had late fees one time, I made her pay me back and she has been diligent about getting books returned ever since.
That is jine with me.
Oh BITE ME. Did anyone read the stories of the All Of A Kind Family? A family in the early 1900s living in a poor section of a Brooklyn with 5 little girls? Papa was a junk peddler. Every week, Mama walked them to the local library to each check out a book.
One of the stories is when the second oldest, Henny, an outgoing, easily distracted girl, lost her library book. When they went back to the library, all the girls were terrified. Henny’s face was streaked with tears. Their beloved “library lady” saw their sad faces and wanted to just pay the fine herself, but she knew that wasn’t the right thing to do. She gave them the amount they would have to pay, and told Henry she could pay it off every week with her daily allowance pennies. She would even let her continue to check out one book each week. The girls were so happy, and decided right away they would all save their daily pennies too to help her.
THAT IS CHARACTER. THAT IS LEARNING TO PAY FOR YOUR MISTAKES.
Our poor kids today don’t need pity. They need to learn hard work and responsibility. Keep your book safe. You have three weeks to return it, three weeks to even renew it on line.
Large local library here is very popular and very nice. A huge plus to the community. I don’t go much, but always enjoy it when I do.
And, yes, there should be fines. Someone else may want to read that book you are hoarding!
Sheesh, in my town a guy was arrested a few years ago because of an excessive library jine. The book was about three years overdue. I don't know about the rest of the country, but here in Texas we take our jines and our learnin' seriously. I'm series.
Our local library in Texas had a limit on how much of a fine you could accrue. But we used to live in San Marino California and the fine went up daily, forever. Those were expensive to pay! A kid misplaces a book, and months later, you owe more than the book is worth. Kids were in grade school then.
It’s a long story but I have cards from multiple library systems and tend to check out a lot of books. Occasionally I lose track a little or can’t make it back on time after my renewals run out. One of the systems has no fines but I still try to be a good citizen. If you are really late they send a bill for the cost of the book. Strangely the system with the highest fines seems to allow the most online renewals.
I’ve never heard of a Late-Return Jine.
Libraries give author’s property away for free which lowers book quality. Now you read 10 books instead of one.
Nothing is free including the library which makes you read 10 times as many books.
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