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Overdue library book is returned after 44 years, shocking staff: 'It still has that little yellow card inside'

An overdue library book, checked out in 1979, was finally returned with a handwritten note from its sender and a $20 donation to the Deschutes Public Library. (Photo: Deschutes Public Library) It was ...
People

Overdue Library Book Checked Out in 1927 Returned by Mystery Man After Almost 100 Years

"All of us are just, you know, wondering where the book could have been for so long," said the director of the St. Helena Public Library Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has ...
NPR

An overdue library book makes a return trip to the shelves — 119 years later

BOSTON — On Feb. 14, 1904, someone curious about the emerging possibilities of a key force of nature checked out James Clerk Maxwell's "An Elementary Treatise on Electricity" from the New Bedford Free ...
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In 1973 a library book was checked out. 51 years later it’s finally been returned

In July of 1899, “The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley,” was added to the collection of the Worcester Public Library. The book, a compilation of illustrations by a British artist and poet, remained in ...