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After the book was added to the library in 1914, it was checked out and was one of a third of its books to survive a fire the next year. The book had been returned to the library in 1916. After its later century-long loan it was deemed too delicate to return to circulation. [50] Shakespeare’s Life of King Henry the Fifth: William Shakespeare
On November 1, the Worcester library made a Facebook post announcing the book’s long-awaited return. “Thank you to Cambridge Public Library (CPL) and the Boston resident who found this book ...
An overdue library book, checked out in 1979, was finally returned with a handwritten note from its sender and a $20 donation to the Deschutes Public Library. (Photo: Deschutes Public Library)
The library in Titusville, Penn., no longer charges fines. But the patron calculated what the fine would have been, paid it and added interest. Check it out: Book borrowed in 1973 returned to ...
Old Market Hall caught fire in 1915, however, with essentially the whole library – 160,000 volumes – burned. Some 34,000 titles, presumably in the hands of patrons at the time, escaped the ...
Back in March, the Louisville Free Public Library (LFPL) received two books checked out by the family of music legend Morris Perelmuter King in the 1920s and were finally returned to their St ...
When the book was returned, the user's card was removed from the file of the day indicated by the stamp and given back, and the book card was replaced in the book. Whilst the filed cards revealed which user had a particular book, or which books a particular reader had borrowed, this was only true whilst the loan continued.
A Pennsylvania library finally saw the return of a book that was last checked out in 1973, a chronicle of Packers coaching legend Vince Lombardi.