2 - Sunday, May 19, 1985 - North Shore News

High library fees

WEST VANCOUVER, home to Canada’s highest
per capita wage earners, is now home to the North
Shore’s most expensive library services.

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW

An imminent cut of ap-
proximately $50,000 in West
Vancouver’s $1 million
library budget has forced
library ‘administration to
make up the lost revenue by
raising various library
charges. The cost of reserving
a book has been doubled
from 50 cents to $1, the ceil-
ing for overdue books has
been raised from $2 to $4
with a 10 cent per day charge,
the price of a single
photocopy has gone from 15
to 20 cents. Use of the
library’s meeting room,
which used to be free, now
costs $5.

Jack Mounce, Chief
Librarian of the West Van-
couver Library, says the in-
creases were instituted with
great reluctance, but ‘‘in
order to maintain the level of

- library services there was no

alternative.”

The proposed 1985 West
Vancouver Municipal
budget, says Mounce, ‘was
fairly rough on us. The feel-
ing is that services like roads
take priority.”

Mounce adds that while in-
creases in West Vancouver

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Library charges reflect the
budget cut and the increase in
general costs, they do not ful-
ly cover the actual costs of
the services.

Kay Easdown, Head of
Adult Circulation for North
Vancouver City Library, says
the library has no charge for
reserving books, ‘‘we have a
lot of unemployed people us-
ing the library and felt, at this
time, that it would be a hard-
ship on some people to
charge.”’

North Van City Library
charges 5 cents per day for
overdue books up to a max-
imum of $2. Photocopies are
15 cents. The City’s library
budget has risen from
$856,700 in 1984 to $881,500
in 1985.

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District's three libraries,
Blair Thompson, says the
District library charge of 25
cents for reserving books is
more a nuisance charge to
discourage frivolous reserva-
tion of books than any at-
tempt to cover costs. He adds
that the District’s library

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cuts that West Vancouver's
has. District Chief Librarian,
Enid Dearing, in declining to
give details of the District’s
1985 library budget, said
figures have yet to be
approved.

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Board member, David Hall,
says regardless of provincial
government claims to the
contrary, restraint is still very
much with us, and adds that
West Vancouver has made a
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