Free to read all you want in-house, but if you want to take some home, you gotta pony up for that card.
Fortunately the card was usually cheap.
Free to read all you want in-house, but if you want to take some home, you gotta pony up for that card.
Fortunately the card was usually cheap.
I’ve never heard of a library card costing anything. But I guess I’m not really surprised that happens somewhere.
Where I live, it’s free for school children and people on welfare etc. For university students it’s 5€ a year, for adults it’s 10€.
So really not a lot, but you also get access to a lot of other online services for free (encyclopedia, streaming service for older and arthouse films, magazines etc.)
Late fees are just there to keep you from keeping a book or whatever for long periods of time, because then other wouldn’t be able to read them.
My library charges 1€ initially to cover for the cost of the card, then it’s free to use no matter what income, age,…
It’s always America… :)
I’ve also never paid for a library card and I live in the US, so it’s clearly not always America. In fact most commenters here are noting they are paying small fees in euros so it seems this trend is common in Europe more so.
the library where i live gives you 1 card for free, but you have to pay a dollar if you need to replace it