Other students, however, said they thought the increased fines would be an inconvenience.
"I would say that the higher fee is a bad thing," said Daria J. Hinz '04. "Last time I borrowed a book, it went down to the wire. I definitely wouldn't appreciate higher fines [because] I got overworked."
The policy change is based on a study conducted by a task force of the ULC over the course of a year.
When asked about the reasons for the new fine amount and loan period, Horrell said only that the new numbers were arrived at because they were the amounts the council could agree upon.
The report and the long-term consequences of the new policy were also discussed at Tuesday's Faculty Council meeting.
The reforms' objective, as stated in a release by the HCL Office of the Director of Communications, was "to accommodate growth in the use of library collections by students, faculty and staff, facilitated by the increasingly interdisciplinary conduct of teaching and research at Harvard."
"The most important part is communicating the changes," said Horrell.
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