Who charges $80 for a library card? Or, in what area, if you don’t want to be specific?
I’m not doubting you—it’s just always been free where I’ve lived.
We live in a Rural Area and pay the Taxes for this Library:
http://www.waterloo.lib.ia.us/services/card/librarycard#costCard
We however live 16 miles from this area and cannot utilize the Library without purchasing a “Non-Resident” Card. I suspect there are many Rural Individuals who fall among the non-districted areas.
Of course we also pay Property Taxes of which $900 per year goes to the School District bond to build a new mega-high-school. Also another 9.45% goes to “Education” - none of which we utilize because we Homeschool.
Thankfully we live within 20 miles another Library - which is in another County and we cannot use that either.