*stares evilly at the person who took out a reserve book 4 hours ago and should have brought it back in two*
I HATE IT when people don't return their books on time. And I hate it more when their reserve materials, 40 students need to read them, and ONE student comes in and takes out ALL 5 BOOKS and HORDES them for hours on end!
I should fine her. OH, yeah. I should fine her BIG time and then make it so her library card can't work...maybe I should BURN her library card.... oh yeah.......
*growlsnarlgrumble*
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Well, look on the bright side. If your library is anything like the one at the university I went to, then those people with overdue reserve books will be paying a fortune for them. At our library is was something like two dollars for every hour that the book was overdue (on a two hour loan). That gets very expensive very quickly.
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Erm...... here, the fines for overdue books aren't that much. Theoretically, you can borrow your textbook and pay a less expensive fine than purchasing the same textbook at the bookstore (which could cost a whole lot of dough).
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No.... we have books that professors put on reserve for their students. Other patrons can't take the books out,and the students can only take them out two hours at a time. That way, each student gets a fair chance to read the course material.
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Yeah, I hate overdue people too, but here (at the public library) we're not talking hours, but YEARS!
We're just about to mail out all our "listen, you SOB this is your last chance to avoid a firestorm" final overdue notices.
Well, actually it's an overdue notice stating the name price and due date of the book, plus advisement of the following facts: In the state of Pennsylvania, if you do not return or pay for a book within 30 days of receiving written notice to return it from the library, you can be fined up to $300 and if you fail to pay you can go to jail for 30 days. (actually, we send them a copy of the actual legal code, but it says the same thing in language that even the local illiterate morons can comprehend if someone reads it to them.)
As Dictator of the U.S., I will create a Library Gestapo. You get two notices to return, then we send three guys to your house, who break in, hold you at gunpoint, and take the books, as well as whatever else the library can use. Then we break your knees.
*Evil laughter* BWA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAA!
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*looks at this one book he's had from the library ever since he was like, 8 years old* Uhh....well.....I'd take it back......but a few years ago I decided it was too late to take it back. Heh.
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I bought the books that I needed because I assumed I'd never get the ones on academic reserve. I rarely opened them, and it was probably a waste of �220 (total from both years).
The books on academic reserve are however a problem to get hold of in the library, but that's the way it is. I've been through it myself - I just found some different books that would still get the job done (albeit not as well).
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Nearly everyone has committed the sin of having an overdue library book or two. But 500? Meet George Szamuely, a man whose stubborn refusal to return books to New York University's library has earned him $31,000 in fines and at least one night in jail.
Police detectives yesterday raided Szamuely's apartment on Stanton St. on the lower East Side, recovering a stash of political science and history books and arresting the New York Press freelance writer. Szamuely, 44, had kept more than 500 books from NYU's library, borrowed when he was a continuing education student from 1993 to 1997.
He ignored numerous notices, from polite warnings to severe threats, while his fines climbed to an astronomical sum. Enough was enough, the university finally decided.
...the books Szamuely had made up a major portion of the library's political science collection. Many were frequently requested classics that are out of print and hard to replace.
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Reccomend a severe beating, followed by 2 years of community service (that's how long it would take ME to earn $30,000, but that's INCLUDING taxes), dealing with all the freakazoids who come into the public libraries simply to look up women's naked mud wrestling on the internet computers.
That'd teach 'im.
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