Better Late than Never

Here at Rodney Libraries, our job is to keep the books (and other items) on the shelves and circulating so that as many people as possible have the opportunity to have a look at them and/or borrow them when they want. That's why we encourage our customers to bring their books back on time.

We check in overdue library books all the time, but we have yet to get anywhere near the 100 years overdue book that was returned to a Finnish Library recently. This article caught my eye yesterday.

"An unknown visitor to the library in Vantaa, near the capital Helsinki, has returned a book printed in 1902. A label inside it indicated it was loaned at the beginning of the last century, the Korso library said... The book was a 400-page collection of religious monthly periodicals called Vartija (Guardian). The library said the visitor wanted to remain unknown to avoid the late-return fee which, according to a note attached to the book, would have been 10 pennies a week. "There is also another possibility. Maybe the book was so dull that it took 100 years to read it," Rantala said. "

For the full story check the Trend News Site

In the meantime, we too stand by the Better late than Never option for returning your library books. Remember books (including the audio books) are issued for four weeks, magazines and music can be borrowed for two weeks and the DVD's, computer games, and Express Select collections are all available for one week.