The St. Louis Public Library is running a program this month called Read Down Your Fines. For kids 17 and younger, every 30 minutes they spend in the library reading erases one dollar of library fines. How cool is that? When I was a kid I could have used that. I used to have to spend my lunch money to pay my library fines, then I would have to eat lunch on a dollar a day. (Don’t ask why I didn’t ask my parents for more money. I was a weird kid.)
September 11th, 2007 at 11:28 am
Are fines fine? CSM argues no! –http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0525/p13s01-lign.html–
A 2006 article postulates that — lifting of library fines (is) long overdue.