SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KGO) -- If you want a truly fresh start for the New Year, the San Francisco Library is letting you wipe the slate clean - if you'll bring back those overdue library books.

Libraries across Suffolk are offering an amnesty on fines due on 15,000 overdue items as part of a drive to encourage reading ...

The book was given back to a Colorado library after it was checked out in 1919. Poudre Libraries Instagram A classic novel was returned to a Colorado library more than 100 years overdue – with fines ...

The Central Arkansas Library System will donate any fines collected for overdue books through Sunday, Feb. 7, to assist victims of the earthquake in Haiti through the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. To ...

Through Dec. 21, each nonperishable, unexpired food item removes $2 from late fees in the St. Johns County Public Library System.

A library in Wisconsin announced an innovative new policy for the handling of damaged materials. Instead of paying a fine, library patrons can share a picture of the culprit. "We understand that ...

Cat lovers do not have to worry about overdue library books at this Massachusetts library. The Worcester Public Library (WPL) has launched a purr-fect solution for erasing those pesky fines. As part ...

TITUSVILLE, Penn. — An overdue library book recently returned to a library in Pennsylvania isn't being offered for loan again. It's on display instead in Titusville's Benson Memorial Library.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego may decide to join several other U.S. cities in closing the book on library fines. Library director Misty Jones went before a City Council committee last week to lay out a ...