(Unrelated photo via wanderingone)
Food for Fines is a charity event at some libraries in the United States. At the South Burlington Community Library in South Burlington, Vermont, patrons with library fines can donate food items. For every item that they donate, they pay off $2 of accumulated library fines.
At the Park City Library in Park City, Utah, patrons have to pay a bit more: each food item is worth $1 in fines. The Warren Public Library in Warren, Pennsylvania is engaging in a similar program in order to help fill up a local food bank operated by the Salvation Army.
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I think this is pretty amazing. Everybody has to eat right? And some of us have food in our houses and no cash in our pockets, I say this is a win, win situation. Fines are paid for while the hungry is being fed……….cant help but love this idea!!!!!
I think that this is such an amazing thing that is being done by these libraries it really goes to show how the library can serve people in many different ways .