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Replacement of Lost and Damaged Books
Below is a draft for the “Replacement of Lost and Damaged Books” guidelines for your review. (Thank you to Gail for her notes on our discussion from Monday’s meeting). I took her notes and used the format from our “Materials Selection Policy Guidelines” document. Consequently, these new guidelines will fall into the category of “updating” an existing policy guideline and can mesh //into// the Collection Maintenance section with no problem. I used similar language and kept the document as generic as possible, using “professional judgment” options for questionable decisions. Please review it and add your comments, suggestions, etc. to the chart (that follows the draft) prior to our last department meeting on May 23 so that we can adopt it as an addition to the Materials Selection Policy Guidelines at that time.

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Collection Maintenance Replacement of Lost and Damaged books Students will be charged the replacement cost of any lost or damaged materials. Replacement cost will be determined by consulting vendors and online sources such as Follett and Amazon. For materials no longer in print, a //like// copy will be purchased. Money will be collected by the media specialist for the purchase of the replacement item. Professional judgment will be used with regard to the following:

Lost book paid for – and then book is found and returned: Financial hardship cases: · Waive payment · Modify replacement cost · Impose future borrowing restrictions Borrowing restrictions for failure to take care of lost/damaged materials: · Limit borrowing privileges to one resource at a time · Restrict borrowed materials to classroom use only · Suspend borrowing privileges
 * Refund money if the book is returned before the end of the current school year
 * Inform student (at the time of payment) that no refunds will be given

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