a meme I could not pass up

[anotheranon]

Because it is so appropriate:

Your Library Destiny by travspence
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Books You Will Check Out	9,235
Amount of Overdue Fines	$6,843
Library Destiny	Held hostage in Periodicals Room
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Still not feeling like a million bucks, but as I feel better than chump change I'm heading to work. Don't worry, if I start to go downhill I'm coming home!

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[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

But who is holding you hostage? Circulation staff enraged by your high fines? Or just some patron who freaked out 'cause somebody tore pages out of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue?

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

It's probably the circulation staff because I've been spending too much time in the old Melody Maker/NME stacks. I'll get out though, because I have the 1920's Vogue facsimilies and a razor I'm not afraid to use ;)

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Choose your cover carefully ... marksmanship and sniper tactics are now compulsory courses in library programs ***teasing grin***

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

As well they should be! Have you ever heard of the book The Island of Lost Maps (http://www.januarymagazine.com/nonfiction/lostmaps.html)? It describes the activities of a thief of antique maps, who among other techniques, would razor (!!) them out of priceless books of charts. As a library tech, it will make your blood boil!

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

No I haven't heard of that book (opens second window to check if CPL has it), but I have two clippings from the Library of Congress Information Bulletin describing real people who were busted by the FBI for committing this very crime in the Library of Congress (materials valued at $40,000.00 in one case and $200,000.00 in the other)!

I used to keep these pinned to the wall beside my desk when I worked at the college, along with other interesting library entertainment ***grin***

Yippee!!!!! CPL has it!!!! ***looking at subject headings*** And this guy isn't EITHER of the ones in my clippings, either!!!

P.S. For a similar tale, you might want to look for A Gentle Madness, which includes a chapter on Stephen Blumberg, who stole over 23,000 volumes from libraries across North America and lined his entire house with them!