Respected forum members,
Five days before I received a query in my Email as well as through personal phone calls from a faculty members regarding library fines. I discussed the matter with my colleagues and my senior teachers. However, we unable to locate any standard rules regarding this. So, I am posting the questions with slight modification to make it suitable for the open platform below for your ready reference and feedback on the issue.
I have a query regarding Library rules. Is there a statute book, that is to be followed while making Over Due fine rules.
In case, if you could suggest me any titles that could be referred I would be grateful.
There is a need in my Institute to frame these rules on some philosophy **. We have a rule of Rs. 1 per day/ per book, but very unfortunately the fines have been regularly bleeding the faculty members with a dear sum of Rs. 9000- Rs. 10,000. Is this normal?
We are becoming poorer by using Library.
1. Is levying such huge fines like, Rs. 9000-10,000 (for 14-15 books worth Rs.55), on the basis of Rs. 1/per day/ book normal?
2. Are there situations where a library might waive the fines? In case, if the Faculty is able to show that the keeping of books was not intentional hoarding- does this become a condition for waiving!
3. I was levied a fine of Rs. 1,06,000, for two dictionaries, that my ** allowed me to keep as an English Teacher from 2012. Dictionary is a teaching aid to Language teachers.
4. Had the stock verification been done, the books would have been recalled from me- but this never happened.
5. Is there are fine recovery system for Libraries?
In some institute there is a capping of some amount as the maximum fine from students- Faculty had no fines on books.
Gentleman, your kind help will make us restore our Library, which is a heart of the Academic Institution as friendly to the user (Faculty and Students).
Kindly educate me on Library over due fines and the rules that I have attached kindly check if they are in jeopardy with the five illustrious Library principles.
Kindly enlighten me about the framing of rules in a way that does not hurt the interest of the Faculty User and the Library that is the heart of an Academic Institution gets better response.
