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The library sticker inside the cover, and the old-fashioned handwriting on it, showed the book was last officially loaned out at the beginning of the last century, she said.
Finland is known for a comprehensive library network with more than 900 libraries for its 5.3 million inhabitants. In 2006, each Finn on average visited a library 11 times and borrowed nearly 20 books.
The weekly trip to the library was a real high when I was growing up. Do kids read, nowadays
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Do kids read?
Jobs is quoted (in the NYT) as saying that “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”
Mind you, he was picking stats that show why the Kindle is a Bad Idea.
Nowadays in the US, if someone returned a book that much overdue, they’d be thanked and then slapped with a calculated and adjust-for-inflation fine…to pay for Great Grandpa’s book irresponsibility.
Perhaps not, but the thought would definitely be entertained by most Blue State Liberal Head Librarians.
#2 keep in mind that libraries also loan out movies and music.
#3- Seems like it would be a conservative attitude to make Great Grandpa pay up. Need to teach him a lesson in personal responsibility and demonstrate the no tolerance policy that exist at every level of law enforcement since Reagan. The level of intolerance has been growing with the conservative movement and has been a predominant aspect of daily life even for the middle class. It used to be that you could actually respect politicians and law enforcement personnel without the fear of them crawling up your ass.
It seems ibraries are for retired people to get away and read free stuff. I just don’t see libraries as appealing to young adults today but I bet there are ideas to do that.
Libraries can be a great social gathering place for community reach programs such as learning English, reading and how to speak to a repubican (if you must). Yes, I stole that line from that GOP bitch.
#4, the truth probably lies somewhere in between. If the county the library was located in was cash-starved, yeah, somebody is looking to inherit Great Grandpa’s hefty fine, no matter the politics. In a cash-rich county, a “Thanks” and a “Don’t let it happen again (wink)” would be the case.
Interesting that conservatives and liberals regard each other as neo-fascists.
In my town a trip to the library is an experience of dealing with insane and very-smelly homeless people that camp out in there. God forbid you should try to use the restroom in there. If I had a kid I sure as hell would not let them alone in the library. There are some seriously deranged mental cases in there.
#5 “It used to be that you could actually respect politicians and law enforcement personnel without the fear of them crawling up your ass.”
Not in my lifetime and I am about to turn 46. I always distrusted cops, even as a small child. And no, my parents were not into criminal activity and they actually respected cops. Politicians, not so much.
But, let’s see….5 cents a day (well that’s what it used to be) X 100 years X 365.25 days is $1,826.25 in fees perhaps due. Actually, IIRC, they stopped accruing fees when they reached the cost of replacing the book.
Oddly, they remodeled the local library. It so happens that I am back in the neighborhood that I grew up in, and the old library (opened in 1961) seemed to have a lot more books in it than the new (2006) one does. They had better chairs (wooden but comfy) before as well.
#9 – I remember being about 17 (circa 1974) and having just purchase a six pack at a UTotem was stopped by the police. I was lectured about underage drinking and the cops made me pour my beer out in the gutter. They sent me on my way.
Try that anywhere today at 17 and get ready for some jail time and fines.
#3 – Pretty close. Libraries are using collection agencies. example: http://tinyurl.com/38f5cc
Was at a bookstore 20 years ago when two teenage girls were browsing — actually only one of them was. Her friend commented, “Why are you buying books when you can just wait for the TV movie? I never read.”
Duh ! Harry Potter anyone??? Sold books by the ton !!! Paper weights ? NOT !!!
#7 – what blather. There isn’t a political scientist worth their salt who would expect anyone other than a conservative [between the two] to move to fascism.
Where did you study history? Walt Disney University?
My kid and I make regular trips to the Library. Every afternoon we set aside a half hour of quiet time to read. Yesterday we had been reading when I told her our time was up. She wanted to continue to read and finished the book. Today she came home from school with a certificate and $10 gift coupon because she was a top reader in her class. But it was yesterday’s comment that made me the most proud.