{"title":"Dealing with Defaulters","authors":"A. Goetz","doi":"10.1300/J114V06N02_05","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The author discusses the use of small claims court for dealing with patrons who have overdue materials. Other solutions- multiple notices and billings, cablegrams, staff collectors- are dismissed as not cost-effective. Thc small claims court procedures for the state of Maryland are examined in detail. and the author's success through this method is documented. Similar successes in Maryland' and North Carolina are cited.","PeriodicalId":248704,"journal":{"name":"Library Overdues","volume":"57 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1984-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Library Overdues","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J114V06N02_05","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The author discusses the use of small claims court for dealing with patrons who have overdue materials. Other solutions- multiple notices and billings, cablegrams, staff collectors- are dismissed as not cost-effective. Thc small claims court procedures for the state of Maryland are examined in detail. and the author's success through this method is documented. Similar successes in Maryland' and North Carolina are cited.