LAPL kills $1 holds proposal.(LJ NEWS)(Los Angeles Public Library)(Brief article)

The key: a web site and email campaign called "save LAPL"

After the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) proposed reinstating a $1 charge to reserve or place a hold on books, citizen resistance has killed the plan. While the Library Commission on March 20 approved a new Fines and Fees Schedule, to go into effect July 1, a month later it instead approved a revised measure, without the fee, but with an increase in fines. Activists and preservationists Kim Cooper and Richard Schave, who regularly use LAPL resources for historic research, created the save LAPL. org web site and generated nearly 900 email messages asking the library not to impose the holds fee. (The web site …