Got Library Debt? Collection Agency Will Help

Published on:
12 September 2006 at 10:19 a.m. ET

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As more libraries nation-wide begin turning to collection agencies to claim overdue fines, Naperville (IL) Public Library will let you in on a little secret.

It already does.

And its agency is pretty successful at coaxing sometimes less-than-willing patrons to cough up missing items.

From February 2001 through last November, Unique Management Services Inc. helped Naperville recover nearly $150,000 in fines and materials valued at $82,000.

But library leaders say they don’t care about the cash.

“We don’t want their money,” Nichols Library Circulation Supervisor Karen Knight said. “We just want the stuff back.”

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