Librarians should expend less effort on debates about fees for services; instead they should seek to provide those services in the fairest possible manner. Cooperation with vendors, administrators, politicians, and others offers an opportunity to minimize through special subsidies the costs of the services to individual users. References are…

The author studies the question of whether adult students from outside an educational district constitute a burden on resources. He also examines the issues of differential fees and reciprocal arrangements among districts. (SK)