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.
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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