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so why should all the media be totally free?
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But again, you are perpetuating the idea that library users aren't contributing to their library revenue stream. There are very few people who don't in some way or another here. Just because the library media is a shared resource does not equate that it is free.
The only people in our Library District who pay nothing is the homeless population which is minuscule for us. And if they want a free Library card, God Bless them and let them have it. We'll deal.
I'll float another objection out there. In our area a taxing body (schools, park districts, the library etc) that wants to increase revenue via a tax increase has to gain approval of the community via an election referendum. If it fails, then they must find a way to operate under the existing budget.
I'd propose that increasing revenue by implementing or increasing a usage fees would be circumventing that law and probably not legal here locally.