[LM_NET] HS: overdue procedures

[Marian Poyner <zambuto2002@YAHOO.CA>]

  I have been asked/told to improve our overdue process. What we have been doing is 
printing up overdue notices by homeroom once a week and placing them in teachers' 
mailboxes. Kids then hopefully are reminded of their overdue book or fine and then 
come to the library to settle up. This year, we're are starting to use "contracts". 
 When the student comes to the library, if they don't have the overdue book and/or 
fine money with them, they are asked to fill in and sign a contract stating when 
they will settle up.  This is new and to date we haven't had too much success.  At 
any rate,  I have been told by my principal that giving the overdue notices to the 
teachers is adding one more thing for them to do and that collecting overdue books 
and fines is my job. She has suggested that I visit classrooms to speak personally 
to each student with an overdue book or fine and that I make phone calls home. She 
does not want ID cards, or anything else for that matter, held back for
 "small fines".   Personally, I think that going to each classroom to speak to kids 
face to face is more disruptive to teachers than putting the notice in their 
mailboxes.
   
  I would appreciate knowing how others handle overdues so that I can try to 
"improve" our procedures here.  Thanks.
   


Marian Poyner
Teacher Librarian
Sacred Heart Catholic High School
Stittsville, ON K2S 1X4 Canada
marian.poyner@ottawacatholicschools.ca

“The School Library belongs to everyone as an integral part of our schools, and is 
a fundamental right of all children in Canada . . . "
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