Sunday, November 30, 2008

Libraries Dealing with the Economy

I read in the paper today that Chicago Public Library is doubling their overdue fees from ten cents a day to 20 cents, with the maximum overdue going from $5 to $10. At my library, we're still only charging ten cents for overdues, but we did recently start charging for printing. Previously, patrons were able to print 5 pages free each day and beyond that, it was ten cents a page for black and white and 25 cents for color. We figure we'll save on paper and toner, make a little money, and cut down on wasteful printing-lots of times patrons, especially kids, just printed because they could and then wound up never picking up their printjobs or left them laying around.

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