Re: Charge for printing

[Ken Verhulst <ktverhulst@YAHOO.COM>]

Our library (550 students, 9-12) spends considerably more (almost 10
times as much) on ink and toner than the $250 suggested by Sarah. I
don't know how many sheets of paper we use in a given year, but I think
I'm on my fourth or fifth box of paper already (20,000 sheets). I
shutter to think how many of these sheets were wasted/recycled
uselessly--and we charge students for the copies they make--but not for
printed pages.

I think the more important question is not whether or not our libraries
can afford to supply paper and ink, but whether our students use these
resources responsibly. It is our responsibility to encourage responsible
use whether we do this by charging for copies, posting guidelines about
responsible use, encouraging students to save information on floppy
disks whenever possible, or any number of other possibilities. I'm not
so environmentally minded that I refuse to leave my computer on at home
-- it serves as my answering machine, after all -- but it does bother me
when students ask permission to print out a very long and important
document from the Internet but never take the time to retrieve it from
the printer.


--- SARAH PECKHAM <speckham@MARIAN.CREIGHTON.EDU> wrote:
> Like other librarians, I was getting bent out of
> shape by the reams of
> paper flying out of the library printers. My
> ecological, "waste-not" red
> flags were up. But when I investigated the actual
> cost I was surprised. I
> was informed by our school business office that a
> sheet of paper costs
> $.00461, thus a hundred sheets only costs 46 cents.
> Printer ink for my ink
> jet printer costs around $25.00 and I replace it
> about once a month which
> is only 250.00/year.  Costs for the laser printer is
> 100.00/cartidge and
> that lasts about four months. Am I correct in my
> figures? At this price,
> the library can easily provide paper in the budget
> for students to print
> what they need. sarah
>
>
>                 &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
>                 Sarah Peckham, Library Media
> Specialist
>                 Marian High School
>                 7400 Military Ave
>                 Omaha, NE 68134
>                 1-402-571-0619
>                 speckham@marian.creighton.edu
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Donna Steel Cook
> [SMTP:donnacook@MAILCITY.COM]
> Sent:   Tuesday, March 30, 1999 6:41 PM
> To:     LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject:        Re: Charge for printing
>
> Jane and LM_NET buddies:  this year my library
> instituted a copying and
> printing policy that has worked just fine.  The first
> page or copy every
> day for every student is free.  Each page or copy
> after that is 10".  If a
> student needs another copy or page, and a friend or
> acquaintance will stand
> beside him to give him or her their free page
> (pronoun grammar just lost
> out to brevity), then he can have two free pages or
> as many free pages as
> friends he can round up. It is plain to the students
> that we are not trying
> to make money, but there is a "governor" on the copy
> and printing, and the
> compulsive copiers are certainly restrained.
> However, when a student needs
> a copy, she can have her one free copy or printout
> every day so that books
> and magazines are not damaged.  Students have been
> just great about paying
> up.  I tried at first to ration paper to the
> printers, but I've learned
> that isn't necessary.
>      So, it doesn't have to be "to charge or not to
> charge."  It can be a
> combination:  no charge for one, but two or more
> costs a dime.
> ---
> Donna Cook, Nacogdoches, Texas :
> Teacher/Librarian Central High;
> District Coordinator, Central ISD;
> Library Consultant, Douglass ISD;
> "Minister of Information" First
>    Baptist Church, Nacogdoches
>
>
>
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Kenneth T. Verhulst
media specialist
Calvin Christian High School
Grandville, MI 49418
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