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Group Pushes Hennepin County Library System to Drop Fines

Sandy Berman is a retired librarian who started the “Committee for the Abolition of Library Fines.” He said he feels locking out a child from libraries due to an overdue book is contradictory to the mission of libraries.

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Author Lisa GieskesPosted on July 28, 2019July 28, 2019Categories children-and-families, government, library-and-info-science, library-services-for-poor-people

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