Library News: Disappearing (and reappearing) library books.

There have been a couple of stories in the news lately of library books that were “borrowed” by patrons over a hundred years ago.  These individuals decided not to return their books to the library.   Generations later, good Samaritans took the initiative to return these artifacts to the library from which they had been taken.

Story one: In early April, Dale Fenton Baird Sr. of Denver Colorado returned a dictionary that had been borrowed by his uncle in 1899 from the Lyn Public Library in eastern Ontario and carried over the frozen St.Lawrence River as the family emigrated to the US.  The book was returned to the Heritage Place Museum in Lyn, which graciously did not require that the family pay the estimated $9000 in fines owed on the book.  (Source: CBC).

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A reminder to all of us to return your library books.

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