I thought I should follow up yesterday’s rant with some better library news. Man returns book overdue since 1960 Robert Nuranen handed the local librarian a book he’d checked out for a ninth-grade assignment — along with a check for 47 years’ worth of late fees.
I just read the Washington Post article “Hello, Grisham — So Long, Hemingway?” and I’m literally cringing. [...] thousands of novels and nonfiction works have been eliminated from the Fairfax County collection after a new computer software program showed that no one had checked them out in at least 24 months. Public libraries have always [...]