Don't mess with the library

The AADL collects $500,000 a year

by Madeline Strong Diehl

posted 2/19/2011

When an Ann Arbor District Library patron apologized profusely while paying her $8 fine for overdue materials, the clerk reassured her: "That's nothing. We have several people who owe more than a thousand dollars in fines."

"I don't know who said that but they shouldn't," responds AADL director Josie Parker. "We are bound by privacy laws not to talk about patrons' records. Furthermore, no one has anything close to a thousand dollars in outstanding fees."

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