Libraries across Suffolk are offering an amnesty on fines due on 15,000 overdue items as part of a drive to encourage reading ...

Before the library system in St. Paul, Minn., stopped collecting overdue fines in 2019, it was spending $250,000 a year to recoup $225,000. Library systems in large metropolitan areas across the ...

Finally, after more than 120 years, Paul Smith has recovered something he never knew was missing in the first place. The headmaster at Hereford Cathedral School, near the boundary between Wales and ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating many changes in daily life – including the age-old practice of charging fines for overdue library books. Since March, dozens of libraries have abolished the fees, ...