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[commotiocordis]

Umm, evidently there's some fine on my public library record for something called "Kingdom Keepers" because it's missing disk number 4. And it's $15. I've never heard of that. Pretty sure I've never checked it out. The library people have been fucking up my account lately. For example. I returned a bunch of stuff. A while ago. A few days ago, it was still on my record as checked out and accumulating fines. WTF? I go back today, and some of it's gone from the record, but the fines that accumulated after I gave it back but before they checked it in are still there. So, um, thanks guys. Because of this crap, my account's past the fine limit and I can't renew these books that I've got out, which are now, as a result, accumulating more fines.

Thanks, guys. Not even cool. What happened to the old public library? The one I walked down to each day and started helping them shelve books in preschool? The one where bureaucratic crap was trumped by reading every time? It's gone. I don't like it.

Comments

[xakana.livejournal.com]

You think that's bad? One of our libraries sends out fines to a collections company and lowers your credit score if you don't return them. O_o Very obnoxious.

[crashcart9.livejournal.com]

Ours does too, actually, I think. They threaten to, at least, but you've got a while. There's like a $25 limit for fines, you're over that for more than a month or you have billed items (the latter being a rule they added without telling anyone, which is unfair, IMO) they charge you $10 more, you still don't pay for 3 mos or so they report you. I've gotten close to the limit, but never had it actually done (as far as I know). It's kinda nuts. Especially if it's not that much money. I had a $7 billed item on there a few months back and they charged me the $10 billed because you lost it fee (even though it was only billed for maybe a week), which ticked me off because I could have bought them a new copy of the book for less than that.