Cincinnati Library's New Materials Recovery Plan and E-newsletter

http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/news/2005/materialsrecovery.html

As of July 5, the Cincinnati Public Library will be using a new system Unique Management Services (http://www.unique-mgmt.com/) to recover overdue books and collect outstanding fines. They are doing away with mailed overdue notices and will instead contact patrons by phone or email when items are overdue. They are encouraging patrons to sign up to be contacted by email. If they do so, they will get an email reminder three days before their books are due. This use of email will help keep patrons up to date on their account and will save the library the cost of traditional means of recovering books and collecting fines.

Patrons can also sign up for weekly newsletter from the library that includes a variety of topics from new books to job openings to library programs and events. Patrons can preference the areas they are interested in.