Somebody memorialized their Eureka moment on the title page of this library book.
Tag: librarian problems
Circulation just sent me this book, which apparently is actually the halves of TWO different books bound together accidentally by our commercial binder. As far as I can tell, the first half of the book is “What we talk about when we talk about love" by Raymond Carver, and the second half is a book by […]
Someone “fixed” this with some poorly placed pieces of double-sided tape. Sigh.

This book was brought to us last Friday. Somebody found it, soaking-wet, outside the bathroom on Thursday night. This is definitely one we’ll be ordering a straight-up replacement for, rather than trying to fix. Please note the fly.
TGIF!
From “Leather for Libraries”, 1905. Read it online!
From Reverend O’Conor’s “Facts About Bookworms”. New York, 1898.
Perfect combo!
Danton does not approve of oversewing!
A really good example of a terrible cover-up job by a patron. We didn’t fall for it. Please note that they have colored in, with colored pencils, the filled-in area AND the roughed-up original boards. Also, the icing on the cake…the title of this book is “Too Big to Fail”.