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Originally Posted by NVash
He tells me that he just found out he has a fine of eleven dollars and walked away sad. Im thinking how the heck does one get a fine so large? Its around a quarter every day a book or DVD is late. Think you get to keep books a month and DVDs a week. How does one amount to such a large fine? And what was he going to ask? To use my card? Heck no, I paid my fines buddy. Most people I know with huge fines though, they continue to go to the library, they just never check anything out.
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Eleven dollars is nothing. I've routinely seen fines of over 50 dollars. Heck, I had a fine of nearly two hundred dollars from a missing DVD. That was at an academic library; for some reason they've bought into the BS peddled by the content industry that they need to pay an exorbitant fee per item in order to stock digital media. Public libraries don't seem to have this policy; I don't see why academic libraries, better prepared to fight any possible legal battle, cave in to it.