Amnesty for Overdue Items

Beat the Fees: Library Announces Amnesty for Overdue, Lost, and Stolen Items

It’s happened to all of us. You’re cleaning a closet or retrieving something from under the bed

and you discover a library book that should have been returned months ago. You’d forgotten

about it, and the library has stopped trying to get it back. If you bring it in and admit you had

it will you be charged? For all those months? What to do?

This is Mr. Opportunity calling…

In anticipation of the introduction of a new fee schedule for overdue library materials, both

LBCC libraries are announcing a first-time ever period of amnesty. Books belonging to LBCC

library that were lost, stolen, kept overdue, even found in a thrift shop can be returned with

no questions asked and no fees assessed between May 15 and May 31, 2011. Bring them

to the check-out desk, or drop them, anonymously, in the outside book return bin. Reserve

books are not included in this offer, and it will not be repeated once the new fee schedule

takes effect June 1, 2011.

So now’s the time to check everywhere to see what LBCC library books you might have kept

inadvertently so you can take advantage of this opportunity to return them without challenge

or penalty.

For more information contact: Nenita Buenaventura, Access Services Librarian goodventure04@gmail.com