Now I’m waiting for The Years of Lyndon B. Johnson 4: The Presidency
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Ha! At my library, we’d hunt you down with book sniffing dogs for only a quarter. ;)
It’s funny because Brett Willard works in a library, he even got a promotion.
Library fines = highway robbery with a scanner for a shotgun.
I had a reserve book from my school for longer than I should
have (it was a 2 hour loan and I had it for 2 days). The total
fine was $40 dollars (the max fine) and the book was
only $17.50 at the bookstore.
Well, Chax, you should have actually bought the damn book, then, shouldn’t you? I hope it was an economics book; the irony would be delicious.
To be fair, the amounts of fines weren’t posted on a sign at the circulation desk were they? And the book didn’t have a label on the spine saying it was for “library use only”? And it wasn’t a required textbook that you selfishly kept the other students from having a chance to use, was it?
Only you can tell the answers to those questions, but I’m betting they’re all “no”. I’m betting you’re a selfish little greedhead who arrogated to himself the “right” to use the textbook as long as he liked, to ignore the rules that make the library an orderly place of learning, and who now feels somehow slighted because someone has made him pay up.
When we say we want the books back, we want the books back. The fine is just a way of smacking you on the nose with a rolled-up periodical.
Book fines buy new books for others to steal and deface, so I have to order books from across the state and by the time they get to my library, my assignment is already done and turned in. I give up and buy my own. My would be fines now buy me my own up to date books with lots of pretty pictures.
“…smacking you on the nose with a rolled-up periodical.”
That happened once. I was napping inbetween classes on the
second story of the Library, where no one dares to tread – the
periodical section. My would-be lawyer buddy was roving the
library looking for my slothful behind and found me sitting
at a desk with a heavy book over my head. He slyly removed
the book, slammed it on the table, and I rose with a start
only to be smacked in the face with, what I believed to be,
the Washington Post. He coupled his blow with a word, or two: “MORNING, BITCH!”
I always complained about library fines, until I worked in a library for a year and learned that people are just lazy and/or selfish assholes and the fine system is very much needed.
I work in a library. The books are FREE if you return them on time. Please know that if you kick up a fuss about paying your fine, the librarians will think you’re a dick and will and make fun of you as soon as you leave the library. Whining about library times is bad karma, people. As it says on Our Official Library T Shirt, SHUT THE FUCK UP AND PAY THE FINE. (And — have a nice day…)
I used to think that library fines paid for the library’s operating costs. I was about 8 and I didn’t understand the tax system yet. Wait, I still don’t understand the tax system…
At the university, I’d often use the 2-hr loan instead of buying the textbook. Most of my fellow students didn’t seem to realize that was an option. It worked out pretty well, as long as I didn’t wait until the last minute to do my reading.
I love all libraries, but public libraries are the best.
Commenting 2 years too late. It’s true. I did work in a library for about four years.
In buffalo the libraries cannot fine you more than the value of the late item for late fees.
Ha! At my library, we’d hunt you down with book sniffing dogs for only a quarter. ;)
It’s funny because Brett Willard works in a library, he even got a promotion.
Library fines = highway robbery with a scanner for a shotgun.
I had a reserve book from my school for longer than I should
have (it was a 2 hour loan and I had it for 2 days). The total
fine was $40 dollars (the max fine) and the book was
only $17.50 at the bookstore.
Well, Chax, you should have actually bought the damn book, then, shouldn’t you? I hope it was an economics book; the irony would be delicious.
To be fair, the amounts of fines weren’t posted on a sign at the circulation desk were they? And the book didn’t have a label on the spine saying it was for “library use only”? And it wasn’t a required textbook that you selfishly kept the other students from having a chance to use, was it?
Only you can tell the answers to those questions, but I’m betting they’re all “no”. I’m betting you’re a selfish little greedhead who arrogated to himself the “right” to use the textbook as long as he liked, to ignore the rules that make the library an orderly place of learning, and who now feels somehow slighted because someone has made him pay up.
When we say we want the books back, we want the books back. The fine is just a way of smacking you on the nose with a rolled-up periodical.
Book fines buy new books for others to steal and deface, so I have to order books from across the state and by the time they get to my library, my assignment is already done and turned in. I give up and buy my own. My would be fines now buy me my own up to date books with lots of pretty pictures.
“…smacking you on the nose with a rolled-up periodical.”
That happened once. I was napping inbetween classes on the
second story of the Library, where no one dares to tread – the
periodical section. My would-be lawyer buddy was roving the
library looking for my slothful behind and found me sitting
at a desk with a heavy book over my head. He slyly removed
the book, slammed it on the table, and I rose with a start
only to be smacked in the face with, what I believed to be,
the Washington Post. He coupled his blow with a word, or two: “MORNING, BITCH!”
I always complained about library fines, until I worked in a library for a year and learned that people are just lazy and/or selfish assholes and the fine system is very much needed.
I work in a library. The books are FREE if you return them on time. Please know that if you kick up a fuss about paying your fine, the librarians will think you’re a dick and will and make fun of you as soon as you leave the library. Whining about library times is bad karma, people. As it says on Our Official Library T Shirt, SHUT THE FUCK UP AND PAY THE FINE. (And — have a nice day…)
I used to think that library fines paid for the library’s operating costs. I was about 8 and I didn’t understand the tax system yet. Wait, I still don’t understand the tax system…
At the university, I’d often use the 2-hr loan instead of buying the textbook. Most of my fellow students didn’t seem to realize that was an option. It worked out pretty well, as long as I didn’t wait until the last minute to do my reading.
I love all libraries, but public libraries are the best.
Commenting 2 years too late. It’s true. I did work in a library for about four years.
In buffalo the libraries cannot fine you more than the value of the late item for late fees.