Don’t let this be you!
A recent headline told the story of a book checked out from New Bedford Free Public Library in Massachusetts in 1904 that was just found in a box of books donated to a West Virginia library!
An overdue library book makes a return trip to the shelves — 119 years later https://t.co/Wd1mjvv0kC
— AllTheBestNews (@AllTheBestNews) July 8, 2023
James Clerk Maxwell’s “An Elementary Treatise on Electricity” was spotted by a librarian and the scientific text finally found its way back to the Massachusetts library after 119 years.
If you have overdue library materials, don’t wait over 100 years to return them. Here in Hampton Roads, the Virginia Beach Public Library is waiving fines for overdue library books now through Sept. 30th.
Find out more here.
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