G'day,
The Brisbane City Council Libraries will wipe any fines you have for late returns.
It's only till the end of this month.
It's only if you take in a can of food for charity.
Pretty good deal.. gonna save me about $25 and get me reading again.
I know some people will wanna give more than one can.. but I'm extremely poor so I won't.
(I searched but couldn't find this posted already)
nice idea…good find. thanks.
How am I going to get a book overdue in time to take advantage of this?
You can pay for others overdues :)
They did this in Vic a few years back $1 fine off for a can, makes you feel pretty bad about doing it though.
Good idea, and thanks very much for posting this. If only my local city libraries would do it!
I owe the library about $5 in reservation fees. Is this included or it is just for overdue items?
Nah it's only overdue fees, I owed them $15 of which $3 was hold fees. Still, $12 written off for a $1 can of soup is a pretty good investment.
Did they give you an item even if you hadn't paid for the hold fee/cleared your debt first?
As long as you owe less than $10 you can pick up stuff and reserve more. I've never had any library items overdue. I reserve DS9 Star Trek DVDs. It's cheaper than my video store. OMG I hate paying video shop overdue fees.
Wished they did this for my uni
Haha same..
Nice idea. And at 79c for a can of Home Brand baked beans, it's a good trade off :-)
Be a man and donate one of those fully loaded cans with balls of meat.
Brilliant concept, and winners all round :)
if only banks would do this if I'm late on my home repayment ;)
LOL…Banks only want to suck your $ never give out :)
most creative deal I've seen so far…
Pensioners prefer PAL
2 out of 3 prefer Home Brand cat food
Great concept!
Maybe some unscrupulous people might then say they can't feed themselves either and get their can of libary-fee-free baked beans back! ;-) While it's good saving for some it's a shame the library has to do it to encourage people to do the right thing. I'd rather just take reponsibility and pay what might be owed. It goes into providing the service you take advantage of (with the "extended" loan). I don't think most users are that poor, just lazy/forgetful or selfish (depriving others of the item).
it's ok.. the library uses forced labour so they don't need all their fees/fines =p.
my older (3yr from pension) friend, who's a nervous(PTSD)/health(cancer)wreck has to work there for his dole money. he says they treat the dole workers like absolute garbage. he has recurring nightmares about the place (obviously relates moreso to his ptsd)
Yeh, it'd be much better if they just let you sit at home by yourself in a darkened room with a bottle of spirits.
Does the can of food have to be within its best before date?
the one i took didn't even HAVE a bb/useby date.
i double checked it.. so did my flatmates.. it's an ALDI mexiCAN mystery.
library people don't look at it.. just take it and put in the pile behind the counter.
C'mon guys its an irony/joke. geez.
you should have put a smiley =p so i knew! =p
seriously.. despite my can being aldi, it was quality tomatoes with garlic.. i'll miss it.
sniffle
[edit: oh.. i see.. the -votes. i put a + for you to get back in the black =p]
+1 for good cause
Wish they did this for my parole.
I went to the library the other week for the first time in 5 years. My card didn't even register in their system so they made me get a new one lol.
i have $25 fines for my uni lib, almost enough to pay, but im graduating in few days so take that haha.
Be careful with that, my uni library didn't allow graduations until all fines were paid :S
yeah, i was just about to say that. Uni's can disallow graduations until all outstanding balances are paid (library, admin, compulsory fees, etc)
Lol, you'll have to pay the $25, thats what they made me do…looks like your degree is now $25 dearer :P
Wow… if they'd do that for parking fines i'd carry a whole box of cans in my car boot.
you could always do that anyway.. and peg 'em at the parking inspectors?? =p (yeah, I'm joking!)
I wish the NSW RTA would adopt this idea. :)
I think this is a brilliant idea :)
tried today at mt ommaney branch…
didnt accept it anymore
+1 for good cause too :)
Why is this the top bargain, how many cans would they expect to get?
It's stupid idea, it's only a once off and won't actually solve any problems.
And hey your saying it's for a good cause, nothing good about trying to patch up societies failures.
Charities don't work.
I know it feeds someone.. that solves the very minor problem of 'death'.
btw, this isn't a 'once off', other cities do this, last time brisneyland did it in 2005.
Back then:
1. There were 2,892 items returned which had previously been considered 'lost'
2. 30,292 items of canned food were received and donated to charity.
so the library gets back 3000 books.. and thousands of people, including children in poor households, get to eat some food.
oh.. and I save myself $25 in fees.. cool.
cute idea.