The D.C. Public Library has just wrapped its amnesty program, a two-month campaign in which residents could return overdue books and movies and have their fines waived. Library spokesperson George Williams says some readers produced books so overdue they’d been too embarrassed to return them. How successful was the program?
21,075: Number of materials recovered during the program, most of which will go back into circulation
103,302.23: Dollar amount of overdue and lost fines waived
1978: The due date of one book returned to the MLK Library. The book spent 34 years at a boarding house in D.C. before its return
