<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Kendra,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">My husband and I fostered his niece's children. Their mom had frequently used their card to check out material for herself when she could no longer use her card to the point that they couldn't use their cards either. Is it possible one of the teen's parents used her card. Also depending on home conditions, it would be really hard to know where the books ended up.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Suzanne</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Kendra Antila <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kantila@ci.lebanon.or.us" target="_blank">kantila@ci.lebanon.or.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello all. We recently had a teenager come into our library to renew her library card. Her card had been expired for several years and had fairly substantial bills for unreturned items. The young woman had no idea where the books were
and was unable to pay for them. She explained that she was now living in foster care.
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<p class="MsoNormal">When we looked at our current library policy we realized we had no recourse, as it states:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Persons wishing to renew their library cards must clear their accounts of lost items and overdue fines.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I approached my advisory board about some type of revision as applied to minors. They have asked me to find out how other libraries handle situations like this. If any of you have policies pertaining specifically to minor patrons with
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#ff9900">Kendra Antila
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Tel: <a href="tel:(541)%20258-4232" value="+15412584232" target="_blank">541.258.4232</a><br>
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