The NY Public Library just announced it is eliminating late fees. Back in 2017, we explained why getting rid of these penalties is a good idea.
recommending that Colorado libraries eliminate fines on children’s materials, “the people who can’t afford to buy books themselves.”This is a conversation that has been percolating among librarians for several decades now. In her 2005on libraries and “socially excluded communities,” librarian Annette DeFaveri described a scenario in which a mother is charged $25 for a lost children’s book:
If the library does not charge for the damaged book, it loses about $25.00. … [But] it will cost the library more than $25.00 to convince this mother to return to the library. It will cost the library more than $25.00 to persuade this mother that the library is a welcoming community place willing to mount literacy programs aimed at her children, who will not benefit from regular library visits and programs. And when these children are adults, it will cost the library more than $25.
Free public libraries are so interwoven into American life that it can be hard to appreciate their radical premise: Anyone in town can take home any book, for free. Overdue fines have always operated as a hedge on that communal trust, the nagging little stick that comes with the big, beautiful carrot. Fines imply that a library’s mission is not only to encourage reading but to perform a kind of moral instruction.
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