Avoiding library fines

cepheus

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Libraryelf is a clever little site that allows you to set up a reminder when your library books are due to be returned so you shouldn't risk forgetting and having to pay a fine. It's not a UK site so doesn't have all UK libraries on it but it's worth checking for yours just in case.

If yours isn't there (or even if it is) then you can always use this site's Tart Alert instead. Originally designed to help remind people when their credit card's 0% rate is due to end it can also be used to send you a reminder for anything from birthdays to when your MOT is coming up.

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I have recently come across this source that sends Email reminders when your library books need to be renewed. I think your library has to be part of the network (mine is) :T


http://www.libraryelf.com/

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jonesMUFCforever

I just read the date on the front of the books myself.

What if I don't remember to boot up my computer?

MissEyre

How annoying, my library aren't part of this scheme! Seems like a great idea-I renew a lot of stuff over the phone and don't usually have the books in front of me to change the dates, so something like this would be ideal...thanks OP!

NickiM

My uni does that and I find it really useful, although sometimes I just skim read the date, and end up forgetting, whoops.

greyteam1959

Set a reminder in your mobile phone ???

gracie83

The fines at my uni library range from 10p to 75p a day! Regardless of what the students think we do try to help them avoid fines. We tell all our students to put the dates on their mobile phones, we read the dates out to them, we provide a 24 hour renewal service, we email them the day the book is due and again the day after and I still get students returning books with massive fines. You just cannot help some people!

ohmsoft

I think thats a great idea - in the past when ive been studying I've had almost 20 books on loan all due back at different dates and this would have been useful - I could have used another bit of my own memory for learning course material.

Sadly mines not there but I have always been supprised that they don't email anyway given the system is fully automated.

cepheus

I suppose human nature being what it is, people will simply put off setting up a reminder in Outlook or a mobile. Incidentally Orange run an Email and free text alert service so when you are sent an Email from a particular sender you get a text on your phone. My friend uses a similar system with his ISP, so if you don't boot up your computer much you will still get the important Emails
on your mobile.

Mikeyorks

cepheus wrote: »

......setting up a reminder in Outlook

Spot on! I can't move, on a day, without Outlook reminding me what I should be doing. The OH considers me mad .... but between the PC and Microsoft we don't forget anything

jonesMUFCforever

To be honest if I had to boot up my computer check my mails or messages on my mobile I would never have time to get the blooming books back on time! :rotfl: :rotfl:

aloiseb

Would you even have time to read any books???
My local library has a website where you can renew the books online - very useful if the time you usually remember to do it is midnight....
I suppose you could set the page as homepage if that would help toremind you to renew your books in time? - it woudl be there every time you bootedup!
DVDs are the most painfully expensive to forget about, at £2.60 a week.