To the person who has the library book that I put on hold...

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Return it, already! It was due yesterday!

Okay, I admit that I don't always return my books on time. In fact, I forgot to return some books before I went on vacation earlier this summer. This is only what I deserve, I suppose. Sigh.

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[the_rck]

I would love a system like that. Our library just has bins where people dump everything, and then, from time to time, staff empty the bins and take the stuff into a back room to be checked in.

For the first day, I just assumed that they had a bin of stuff they hadn't gotten to yet and that everything would be checked in soon. Sometimes, they don't get things checked in until the morning after they're actually returned.

I think that, if the books had just gotten shelved, they'd have found them by now. They've been pulling holds for me the last couple of days and doing that very promptly, and I'd expect that to come after checking the shelves for these books. All seven books are still listed as checked out to us in the online catalog, so none of them have been found yet. I emailed them about it on Tuesday and got a fairly prompt response.

I just hope they will let me check stuff out this weekend. They may not given that one of the missing books is overdue and can't be renewed due to having a hold on it.

The library does, over the course of a lifetime, allow each patron to claim three items as things they're sure they returned that they then don't have to pay for. I think I've had two of my three over the last thirty years, so I could conceivably end up having to pay for several of these.