Hi Fatima,

I am completely in favor of reducing the $2 fine for overdue videos. Normal practice is to bring the organizations "fine and fee schedule" to Council once a year. I think it would be best to maintain that practice here but, come June, the recommendation for reducing video fines will be on our new schedule.

There a lots of interesting ways in which libraries have come to manage access to public Internet PCs. What we currently do at SSJCPL is likely the most common approach but I've others that worked very well, too. My personal favorite (though I don't even know if our current PC reservation software could do it) worked like this: There is no established time-limit on the public pc's. If there is nobody waiting to use a PC (i.e. nobody who has placed a reservation) or if there are PCs not currently in use, then the people on the PCs could, theoretically, use them for as long as they'd like. However, as soon as all PCs are in use, when somebody makes a reservation, the person who has been on the longest automatically has there session ended (with a few minutes of notification, of course). This approach works very well for maximizing the use of the PCs and actually reduces the wait time for PCs.

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I agree! Thanks so much for the input. Yes, I think our Library can and should evaluate these ideas and discuss how best to implement them. And then actually do it!

Thanks again - CF

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