Arizona: Phoenix Public Library Missing 40,000 Overdue Items
The Phoenix Public Library has more than 40,000 overdue materials, including books, CDs, audio cassettes and videos.
The outstanding fees total about $4.3 million, which includes money owed to the library and a collection agency, according to city officials.
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It’s a problem every library faces. And for Phoenix, which has 17 branches and a collection of 1.8 million items, getting all those items back isn’t always easy. The staff has made minor tweaks to its policies from time to time to try to curb the behavior.
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About 50.8 million people visited one of the Phoenix libraries in the 10 years from July 1, 2002, through June 30, 2012.
Over the same time, customers checked out 156million items. As of Nov. 6, 40,500 of those library items have not been returned.
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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