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Apr. 22nd, 2004 01:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dampscribblerThis has me very upset.
I returned a book to Central Library on Saturday. Actually, I returned two: "At the Bottom of the Garden," by Diane Purkiss, and "Kingdoms of Elfin," by Sylvia Townsend Warner. They're both books about fairies and fairy tales, books that I checked out many months ago and then didn't read much. I decided to return them with a bit of reluctance -- I thought (as I often do) "I'll probably have time to get to them soon." But they were collecting dust, and God knows I have enough dust collectors in this house, so I took them back. Unfortunately, only "At the Bottom of the Garden" was marked returned by the library. I called to let them know I had also returned "Kingdoms of Elfin," and now when you search for it it's listed as "Claimed Returned." How is it I can return two books at the same instant and in the same place, and one gets credited and one gets lost? If I had suspected it would get lost, I would have just kept it. Now I'm afraid to return any more books, unless I hand them to the librarian.
It's so wrong for books to get lost. I feel a bit sad about it.
I returned a book to Central Library on Saturday. Actually, I returned two: "At the Bottom of the Garden," by Diane Purkiss, and "Kingdoms of Elfin," by Sylvia Townsend Warner. They're both books about fairies and fairy tales, books that I checked out many months ago and then didn't read much. I decided to return them with a bit of reluctance -- I thought (as I often do) "I'll probably have time to get to them soon." But they were collecting dust, and God knows I have enough dust collectors in this house, so I took them back. Unfortunately, only "At the Bottom of the Garden" was marked returned by the library. I called to let them know I had also returned "Kingdoms of Elfin," and now when you search for it it's listed as "Claimed Returned." How is it I can return two books at the same instant and in the same place, and one gets credited and one gets lost? If I had suspected it would get lost, I would have just kept it. Now I'm afraid to return any more books, unless I hand them to the librarian.
It's so wrong for books to get lost. I feel a bit sad about it.
