Waiving Late Fees during Nat’l Library Week

search engine web writes “


    Some libraries in the US and its territories have begun a FEE-WAIVING campaign during National Library Week to give patrons who might never return their late merchandise, amnesty.

Some are asking for a donation of canned goods or nonperishable food instead of fines
(I assume those are for local pantries, and not underpaid library workers–rh).


  Here are a few fee-amnesty stories from around the globe:

http://www.guampdn.com/news/stories/20040411/local news/210744.html

http://www.edailynews.info/articles/2004/04/16/new s/news13.txt

http://www.dailylocal.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=112 92336&BRD=1671&PAG=461&dept_id=17782&rfi=6 “

April 17, 2004 by Uncategorized 1

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1 Response

  1. Anonymous Patron says:
    May 13, 2004 at 1:08 am

    amnesties vs legal notices
    I really hate to see “book amnesty” notices, including those which substitute other items such as food as “contributions”. Our tax dollars (primarily) paid for those books and the staff to make them available. A good stern legal notice to repeat offenders is often more effective. We get parking tickets for hogging parking spaces; video stores grab money from your debit or credit card for lost or damaged films; stores don’t refund money for lost or damaged merchandise — why are libaries so whimpy?? IMHO, amnesties just encourage irresponsibility in people to hold on to books so as to avoid fines. And the fines are so low already. Our library won’t charge fines greater than $5.00, even if a book has been out for six months!

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