The new year will bring new things with it new fees, closings and changes that you might have expected. For years I have remembered the library’s late fees were 10 cents a day. Now as of January 1, 2009 the fees will double. For books and will also increase for other media as well. O want to hold on to my pennies as much as possible so I think that I will definitely make more of an attempt not to avoid the fee. On a couple of occasions the book I was not quite finished with was requested by another person so I wasn’t able to renew it online. Instead I kept it for another day or so until I finished it. Previously this would have only cost me less than a quarter, now this will be 40 cents.
Even so, if I have to pay less than 50 cents for “renting” a book that I can’t renew this is still much cheaper than buying the book from a bookstore.
This isn’t a New Year’s resolution and the amount I pay in fees to the library each year totals less than $1. If I kept the same habits, this would be $2 in 2009. That’s a cup of coffee.
