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I love my school librarians, they let me check out more thanthe schools limit of out books, they waive all library fees on my account, and they let me have the non library books that are accidentally dropped in the return box. Librarians are good friends to have. Just offer to help a couple timesand they will let you do what you want, (Whithin the rules.)

Sound like what I do. smile I'm now going to become a librarian.

I've had a $10 fee on my card for about two years now. But I rarely use the library, and when I do, I just do self-checkout. The machine can't bust me for my fee. I plan on never paying it. =D

My library charges $.25/day/book. My school library charges $.10/day/fiction novel or nonfiction book, and everything else (we can check out reference materials overnight and audiovisual equipment like cameras, VCRs and other stuff) is $1/class period/book. which REALLY sucks.

at the public library though (I live not three blocks from one of the Public library branches, it's awesome!) I checked out like, 8 books, and got grounded the DAY before they due, and my parents don't ground me from TV or video games, they ground me from books. So, I have these overdue books, that I can't read, and can't return, and I pay for all my library fines. (I have my own card, everything at our library is computerized, so you have to have a card to use the internet and stuff, and you can check on your account at the search station things, and renew books or reserve books, and you can have any book from a different city library transferred to any other library to pick up)But by the time I was ungrounded, I had a $38.50 fine. Our library sends out a notice after you get $20 in fines, and after you get $25 you have 3 weeks to pay it all off or the library sends a collection co. after you and you have to pay an extra $10 in service fees. But I only had $20. And you have to pay it ALL off (you can pay it off in increments, but if your balance is anything more than $0.00, you get the repo man). So I went down to the library to cough up my $20, and the librarian there (they know me there, I'm there constantly) took my $20 dollars and said..."Ooops...I just knocked off all your balance...oh well..." But I buy a new book in fines (and fees) almost monthly anymore.

Once my family left on vacation and didn't realize untill we got back that me, my sister and my mom had all left huge stacks of library books under our beds. We ended up owing 63 dollars in fines, and couldn't show our faces in the library for weeks redface Now the librarians just renew our books for us, they know we won't steal any.

I love my library! We have no fines whatsoever, you can put books on hold online and pick them up at the library of your choice, and we have three or four self-checkout machines. The downside is, the selection isn't quite as nice as in some of the other counties.

We usually check out a lot of books from our library, so sometimes we'll forget a book when we go to return them, and we get fined, and sometimes we're really busy and forget about our books and when they were due, so we get fined like 2 dollars for each book.