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amother
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Post Wed, Jun 26 2019, 4:07 pm
What do you think is the real reason behind this?

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Effective July 1, 2019, we are changing our library's borrowing policy and lowering the daily overdue fine for multimedia items. Below are highlights of the changes that will be made:

The borrowing limit will change from 99 to 50
The renewal limit will change from 99 to 15
The fine for each multimedia item (DVDs, CDs, Audio Books) overdue will decrease from $1.00 per day to $0.15 per day
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ra_mom




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jun 26 2019, 4:20 pm
Because people take out too many items at a time and keep renewing those same items again and again and items are not available for others.
And because fines are so high that they encourage people to choose to tell the library that they lost the item and pay for it's value instead of having to pay such high late fees.
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Raisin




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jun 26 2019, 4:28 pm
our library system completely abolished fines recently.

They don't want to discourage poor people (middle class people buy books) from borrowing books.

But we have a much much lower limit of books to borrow. I think its 12.
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baby12x




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jun 26 2019, 5:53 pm
This is why:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/w.....e=amp


Ebooks are extremely expensive for libraries to buy.
Coupled with budget cuts, well... thats what happens.

If this bothers you, then call your local councilman, representative or library and make it known that you consider library funding a priority. Politicians listen to the people and put money where more people make the most noise.
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chestnut




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jun 26 2019, 6:14 pm
Why do they gave such high borrowing/renewal limit??
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amother
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Post Wed, Jun 26 2019, 6:26 pm
baby12x wrote:
This is why:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/w.....e=amp


Ebooks are extremely expensive for libraries to buy.
Coupled with budget cuts, well... thats what happens.

If this bothers you, then call your local councilman, representative or library and make it known that you consider library funding a priority. Politicians listen to the people and put money where more people make the most noise.


I would love to see library funding get cut. We pay $600 a year. I don't mind books and periodicals, but we pay for tickets, video games, and movies.
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yo'ma




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Jun 27 2019, 8:26 am
Raisin wrote:
our library system completely abolished fines recently.

They don't want to discourage poor people (middle class people buy books) from borrowing books.

But we have a much much lower limit of books to borrow. I think its 12.

I don't understand this. The punishment fits the crime, so to speak. They're not charged for borrowing them, but they have to return it in a timely fashion. If they don't, what happens? Let's keep them all?
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amother
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Post Thu, Jun 27 2019, 11:46 am
chestnut wrote:
Why do they gave such high borrowing/renewal limit??

Power users support the library more than other users do.
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