Anyone feel safe borrowing a book from that library?
But you have to admit she was warned ... on several occasions and chose to ignore them.
I would be willing to bet she’s a liberal and probably an English teacher, too.
failing to return a library book ??
I say throw the book at her. LOL
The judge should throw the book at her.
I am not a lawyer, but this doesn’t seem criminal to me, rather civil and should have been dealt with through civil action.
The gal and the library entered into a contract agreement, the library set the conditions of the loan (of the book) and the gal violated the conditions of the contract (return the book by a given date).
Granted, her actions should result in consequences, but in criminal action, I doubt it.
Like a typical liberal she considers the rules only to be for the little people.
It would be great if with fines and penalties it costs this lazy bitch a thousand dollars.
Ok, this is stupid. Why does the library have the power to put you in jail when a video store cannot?
This is a fascist state policy.
The video store can sue you, but not take your liberty, and would never sue for so little as $13!
Civil case vs criminal case.
Book her, Dano!
Wow! Great question!
Currently the items that are set to LOST, meaning those items that patrons have not returned, number in the 40,000 items range for this Regional Library, this is out of the 496,930 cataloged items we have in the system. Our materials budget is 1.2 million dollars. This includes DVD's, books, CD's etc.
You can remind the person, too, that theft of library materials is theft of public property and as a taxpayer I would be upset over the fact that someone did not return the public's property that the public paid for through with their tax dollars. Also by not returning the library's material, this person was preventing others from access to that particular title.
Most libraries have a very tight budget and when we have to replace the material this is an additional cost to the library, which is an additional cost to the taxpayer. Some items we cannot replace either because the title is out of print or the budget for replacements has been reduced.
We also send notices to patrons with overdues, we even send a pre-overdue notice, some of our patrons have racked up bills to the tune of over $1500.00, these folks are sent to a collection agency, the library does recoup some of the fines (cost of the book and the overdue fees) this money goes into our general fund. The rest we have to write off because of the statute of limitations on recovering money and or materials.
My note: If the average book is $13.95 then 40,000 non-returned books amounts to $558,000 just for this library system. So no, that was not excessive for that woman to be charged. It's your tax money.
Regards, J
Libraries tend to be run by the county, as is the Sheriff’s Office.
If you must steal, best to choose an entity that doesn’t have its own law enforcement departmrnt.