[Publib] Deadbeat Borrowers & their families

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In a message dated 10/3/2007 5:02:04 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
theresag at scfl.lib.ca.us writes:

Many  years ago I worked for a library system in Southern California.  It had 
 collectors on its payroll who went out to people's homes and picked up  
materials.   I am surprised that most library systems don't do that  anymore.  It 
seems to me that they should make the same as a subpoena  server for the 
courts and could work part-time.


Indeed.  LAPL used to have a fellow who did that.  When he  retired, they let 
the position go.  I must have mentioned this here,  but I used to work for a 
college library and would track down former professors  and some students who 
had left with large numbers of books.  I'd send them  a address tags to put on 
the packages and got a good response.  It is  interesting that librarians are 
similar to other professionals in that they  undervalue skills they don't 
possess.  Any investigator could go out and  get you back a lot of material in a 
very short time, in the same way a librarian  can find information in a snap.  
Part of this stems, I believe, in the  tacit acceptance of loss--which is 
really from the public.  Librarians just  write it all off.
 
But you wouldn't be able to pay them what a process server gets.  Take  my 
word for that.  But hey, I'd do it for librarian wages.
 
M. McGrorty
Cal. PI License 16863
 



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