Fifty-two years after this parton checked out "Principles of Speech" and "Preface to Critical Reading" (such practical books) they returned the to the Oregon State University Library with a note. The patron "Borrowed" them in 1963 for a high school speech class and had carried them around all the intervening decades. Now they are home and the library is deciding their fate.
Everyone who has ever had the privilege of belonging to a local library has experienced that dreadful moment. You are sorting through a pile of books at home, or digging under the back seat of your car, or possible just moving a shelf and then you see it; a book with the familiar marking of your library. A book that is quite a long time over due. Take it in, pay the late fee, do what needs to be done. But for a parton of a Portland, OR library, it was a little more than that.
Fifty-two years after this parton checked out "Principles of Speech" and "Preface to Critical Reading" (such practical books) they returned the to the Oregon State University Library with a note. The patron "Borrowed" them in 1963 for a high school speech class and had carried them around all the intervening decades. Now they are home and the library is deciding their fate.
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