Librarians in the news

Two recent news bits on libraries here ...
First, librarians in Michigan want to pursue jail time as a penalty for the most egregious cases of overdue books. (Thanks to RF for the tip!)

For example, one patron from Bad Axe owes $1,190 for 73 items — mainly science-fiction books — hoarded for more than a year, Paffhausen said.

Patrons keep an average of $25,000 in overdue materials out of the county's library system each year, officials said.

That costs taxpayers money, because the library often must buy second copies to replace unreturned materials, leaving less for new books, CDs and DVDs, Paffhausen said.

The other news is librarians in Orlando want to stop solitary adults from loitering in the children's section. Adults can go into the kid's section and get books, but no hanging out alone allowed.
Librarians there say they haven't had any problems, but they want to act now to create a "safe environment for children". That seems a little vague to me. I would describe it plainly as a pre-emptive meaure against child sex predators. But I guess they don't want to say "libraries" and "child sex predators" in the same sentence, and I suppose I can't blame them.

Jail time for the worst overdue borrowers sounds pretty good to me. I have more mixed feelings about the no-adults-in-the-kids-section rule. In principle, I don't like to see restrictions created before any actual problems have happened. It seems paranoid. On the other hand, I don't see a huge problem in asking adults, once they've made their book selections, to leave the kids section for the kids.
What do you think?