Any librarians here? Why is there a $100 fee for losing items

>>8655135
Varies state to state I guess. In my library it's $200 plus book fee and up to 3 months in prison.

>>8655152
That's not too bad. The place I lived before, you would get stoned to death for dog earing the pages.

My town has a big meth problem so all the books are chained to the shelves. Some of the non-fiction books are in range of the tables but for all the others you have to stand.

My local library won't even let anyone in. We just hold up our library cards and look at the books through the windows.

>>8655135
Library worker here. We charge patron the price of the item as listed (non-negotiable, non-exchangeable) for items considered lost (etc. amount of time since being overdue). Any item that has been lost for a period of time results in an additional collections agency fine, but there's only one of these per patron and it's only like 10$ regardless of how many lost items. I've never heard of a library charging 100$ just for any item, seems excessive.

>>8655450
My local library has a policy where 50% of the books you borrow at any time must be written by a woman or a minority otherwise its a hate crime.
i just read ebooks now

Our library has a $28 fee in addition to the cost of the item, but we've never been charged it (?)

This includes the time my brother lost a book and just renewed it 99 times; he had it out for over 3 years

>>8655584
You live in Germany I take it?

I have no idea what my library does when you lose a book.
Never lost one,and never asked about losing one.

https://youtu.be/rrLBd8DVPAY?t=1m5s

>>8655135
My library doesn't even contain books. It's just an empty room where people go to think about books.

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It could just be a maximum possible fine in order to deter the chronic book destroyers. It's like those "no dumping" signs. If you get caught dumping trash they're not going to charge you 500 dollars unless you have a history of doing it.

>>8655746
Right. Or "feeding pigeons, $500"

I just thought it was weird that the state-wide system has much higher fees than the local branch.