Tag: patron damage

No love for sticky-notes

Post author By digitalcellulose
Post date February 12, 2017

💔 💔 💔 💔 No love for whoever used these pink heart-shaped sticky notes in one of our library books. They are now firmly attached to the page, even after only being placed there less than 8 months ago. Our circulation staff sent this book to Preservation after they tried to remove one of the […]

Tags patron damage, sticky notes

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Please don’t DIY when it comes to book repair!

Post author By digitalcellulose
Post date February 12, 2017

This was a book that was damaged by a dog, and “fixed” with packing tape by a patron.

And this is also why the staff at the library will often stress that patrons should not attempt their own repairs of library books. The “repair” often does more damage than helps, and won’t actually save you from being fined for a repair or replacement fee. This was so heavily damaged that we ended up withdrawing […]