Don't have a calculator, but the article states the fine today would be $18,000.
Back in my day Librarians were stern women, some had faint moustaches.
I just bought an older book online and it had belonged to a library at one time. It even had the check out card in it still.
lol… ‘some had faint mustaches’ .
Anyone want to make the toys?
Yup . Lulled into a false sense of comfort with the motherly children's librarians. Then shocked by the reality of Nurse Ratched types when you aged up to the adult library section.
Ssshhhhhh!!!!
If someone goes through my personal effects after I am gone,
they will come across a couple of dozen books that
may look to them as being overdue library books.
I bought them at a library book sale many years ago.
They still have the “property of” stamps, and the card holders.
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“...made a surprising discovery:
an overdue library book checked out by her grandfather...”
How would she know the book was checked out by her grandfather?
When you check out a book, you sign the card,
and the library keeps the card until you return the book.
The card does not stay with the book while it is checked out.
Was it Seinfeld
It was a first edition of Huck Finn./S
Libraries still exist?
I have a full set of World Book Encyclopedias bought in the 70s with several year in review books for 1978 to 1984 or so.
Perfect condition. Most not even opened.
I have no idea what to do with them. Heavy, hardback books.
I don’t think a school would want them. Or Goodwill. Library?
Everything is on the internet now.
I don’t want to just throw them away.
Suggestions?
At least is wasn’t a VHS tape from blockbuster
The librarian in my town was a man. He was very geeky, likely a poofter and smelled strongly of body odor. As I recall, he had a very weak voice. Just gave off several weird vibes all at the same time.
You didn’t know about her private life. You didn’t want to know about her private life.
Stopped by the local library today (it’s nice even in our little village) and in the “give-away” magazine bin was a 1956 National Geographic. My Grandparents kept Geographics and American Heritage and I read them voraciously when I summered with them. It was fun to revisit those days through this old magazine.
L.A. County libraries have NO fines for overdue books. I think they figured out no one is going to return a book if they have to pay a fine. I hope they kick that non-returner person off the library rolls. But less people read books anymore.