RE: Penalty points

["William Gray" <wgray at greenwichlibrary dot org>]

They do that anyway.

:(

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From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org
[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Mitch Turitz
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 5:50 PM
To: innopac at innopacusers dot org
Subject: Re: Penalty points

Will,

   The thing about penalty points is that you'll only be encouraging 
patrons to steal the books instead.

-- Mitch

-----Original Message-----
From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org
[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of William Gray
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 9:18 AM
To: IUG INNOPAC List
Subject: RE: Penalty points

We have a fines-based system, and I can't say that it much discourages
people from returning items late.  Given our stats on outstanding money
owed and billed items, I'd have to say that fines are a failure.

I'd love to use penalty points, and have been suggesting the idea here
for years.  With penalty points, after a certain threshold, a patron
wouldn't be able to check anythign out for a specific peiod of time
depending on how many pp's they'd accrued. I know that would certainly
be incentive here for people to get things back, but the trick is
getting your administration to agree to it, and if you're a public
library, your town (especially if they see the fines as a source of
"income", even though you may technically be a non-profit).

I know pp's are very big in Australia.

--Will
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