Does your library or institution ask your students to pay a deposit to
cover un-attributable losses?
I should be grateful to hear from you
(a) if your institution or library has such a scheme, in which case, how
does it operate?
(b) if you have considered one and rejected the idea. In this case, why
did you decide against it?
There has been some correspondence on Lis-Link about this in 1998, ’99,
2001 and 2003 and I would like to see what’s happening elsewhere now.
Such a scheme might work in the following way:
1. Students pay a deposit at the beginning of each year to cover the
replacement cost of college resources which are lost or damaged during the
year by persons unknown, i.e. for un-attributable losses.
2. All these deposits go into a central fund.
3. Towards the end of the year, money from the fund is used to cover the
replacement costs of losses or breakages which cannot be attributed to
particular individuals.
4. At the end of the year, the remainder is then distributed equally
amongst the students.
Regards,
Ralph Cox
Head of Library and Archive
LABAN
Creekside
London
SE8 3DZ
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