Cape Town's libraries will have a fine-free week from Monday to Saturday to encourage people return 22,775 lost items, including books, study guides and DVDs.
Cape Town libraries are appealing to patrons to return more than 22,000 books, study guides and DVDs worth R3m.Now the city is appealing to patrons to return them. On Friday, councillor Patricia van der Ross, the mayoral committee member for community services, said the city’s libraries would have a fine-free week from Monday to Saturday to encourage people to return the items. Van der Ross said the 22,775 items included books, study guides and DVDs.
“We cannot ignore the reality of lost or unreturned items. An item is deemed lost when it hasn’t been returned by the due date for at least three months. This deprives other patrons of enjoying the item, while libraries incur a loss they can ill afford,” said Van der Ross.
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