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Many libraries do away with overdue fines

By Nancy Shohet West

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  April 08, 2012

Although to some library users, paying overdue fines seems as traditional as the Dewey decimal system, more and more libraries in communities north of Boston are doing away with overdue fines - sometimes on books only, sometimes on DVDs and electronic materials as well.

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