Congratulations on getting 50% compliance!
I go through the offices regularly and do check-out cards to the occupant, but do not remove the books. I lecture people and appeal to them as friends.
I also have email book round-ups for specific missing items, and publish and post virtulal post-office like "Wanted" posters complete with pictures of an F Supp or whatever volume and stamp items "Captured" when found.
I sit near the library exits and try to bust offenders on the way out with unchecked out books, and stalk the copy rooms, where books are often to be found used and abandoned.
IMHO: Short answer is that until firm managenent starts disciplining staff for circulation violations, the problem can be managed, but not really solved.
Tom Killian City of Detroit Law Department Library
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