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Reading Libraries Improvement Programme: Withdrawal of Library Fines

Meeting: 21/09/2022 - Policy Committee (Item 25)

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This report sets out a proposal to remove a barrier to people accessing the library, by removing fines for late return of books.

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Minutes:

The Executive Director of Economic Growth and Neighbourhood Services submitted a report on a proposal to remove library fines for overdue items and other fees.

 

The report noted that when library services had been made fully digital during the first Covid lockdown in spring 2020 fines had been, by necessity,  ...  view the full minutes text for item 25