[From article]
“It was 36 years, one month and seven days late,” said Louise Lareau, the managing librarian at the Children’s Center on 42nd Street, of a stained copy of “Making the Best of It: A Common Sense Guide to Negotiating a Divorce” — withdrawn during the Carter administration and returned in May 2013.
“He very sheepishly handed it over,” she recalled of the elderly man, who said he found the book in his attic. “He asked, ‘What are the fines?’ ”
But since the book’s withdrawal predated the library’s automation system, there was no record he even took it out.
“So he made a $50 donation to the library. He just threw the money and was out the door. He was rather mortified and embarrassed by the whole thing,” she recalled, adding he never said whether he was the one getting divorced.
http://nypost.com/2014/08/02/librarians-reveal-nycs-most-insanely-overdue-books/
Librarians reveal NYC’s most insanely overdue books
By Gary Buiso
New York Post
August 2, 2014 | 5:24pm
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