Resources

Overdue Fines: Advantages, Disadvantages, and How Eliminating Them Can Benefit Public Libraries (Research Paper, 2020)

Social Library, Fines Edition [WebJunction] (2019)

NCompass Live: Eliminating Late Fines is a Win-Win for Your Library and Community (Recorded Online Session) (2019)

Eliminating Fines FAQ – Colorado Virtual Library (2019)

Resolution on Monetary Library Fines as a Form of Social Inequity (American Library Association, 2019)

LONG OVERDUE: Eliminating Fines on Overdue Materials to Improve Access to San Francisco Public Library (2019)

It’s Not Fine to Fine (a website dedicated to removing library fines in Australia) (2019)

Dawn Wacek | TEDxUWLaCrosse (2018)
TED site | Transcript

Eliminating Library Late Fees and Overdue Fines to Increase Health Equity (The Network for Public Health Law, 2018)

Salt Lake City Public Library (Removed all fines in 2017)
Recommendation from Executive Director Peter Bromberg
Articles and Research
Supporting Documentation
(Used with permission, many thanks Pete!)

Removing Barriers to Access: Eliminating Fines and Fees on Children’s Materials (Meg J Depriest, prepared for the Colorado State Library, 2016)

Removing Barriers to Access: Eliminating Fines and Fees for a Win-Win for your Library and Community (Online Learning Series, Colorado State Library 2017) [Archived webinar]

ALA Policy Statement: Library Services to the Poor (2012)
“The American Library Association shall implement these objectives by: 
1. Promoting the removal of all barriers to library and information services, particularly fees and overdue charges.”

Economic Barriers to Information Access (ALA, 1993)
“All library policies and procedures, particularly those involving fines, fees, or other user charges, should be scrutinized for potential barriers to access.”

Free Access to Information (ALA Policy Manual B.4.2 [formerly 50.3])
“The American Library Association asserts that the charging of fees and levies for information services, including those services utilizing the latest information technology, is discriminatory in publicly supported institutions providing library and information services.”