Ravenwood - 11/22/04 06:15 AM
I haven't been to the public library in years. While I love to read, I prefer to just buy the book and add it to my own personal collection. I'm the same way with DVDs, and I think that at the heart of the matter is the inconvenience of returning the item.
Of course, what is now just an inconvenience may soon become a crime if some librarians get their way.
Keeping library books too long could soon land some readers in jail.Undoubtedly, the ACLU will fight this as aggressively as they have for the right to surf kiddie porn.Frustrated librarians want the worst offenders to face criminal charges and up to 90 days behind bars.
"We want to go after some of the people who owe us a lot of money," said Frederick J. Paffhausen, the library's system director. "We want to set an example."
It depends on how EXTREME the case is. Here, someone absconded to Chile with various irreplaceable pieces of the (British) Royal Greenwich Observatory's collection. It left historians arguing over who actually discovered Uranus without the original documents for 30-some years. They only got them back (and a lot of books) after the guy died.
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