The Lexington Public Library no longer levies fines and fees for lost or damaged materials or late items. The policy, instituted in 2020 during the onset of COVID, has been made permanent. Heather Dieffenbach is the executive director of the public library system. Dieffenbach said the long-standing fines and fees policy didn’t amount to a big revenue generator.
“We never made that much revenue through fines and fees and in looking what it would have cost us to start charging fines and fees again, that was going to be more than the revenue we would have taken in through fines and fees,” said Dieffenbach.
