Books with feet

On Monday a patron called the reference desk about a book she had put on hold over a month earlier. It was due back on May 15th she told be but she'd not been called yet. Well, she was correct, the book was due back on May 15th but it hadn't been returned yet. Aghast, she couldn't figure out why someone would do that and "don't [we] send people after them?" Of course, I didn't have much of an answer for her but here's an example from Omaha: (registration required, use BugMeNot.)

"Soon after retired FBI agent Mark Felt was revealed as Watergate's "Deep Throat," someone stole the Omaha library's only copy of Felt's 1979 book, "The FBI Pyramid From the Inside.

"Sass said the book, which is out of print, was probably worth $1,200. She said the library now seeks to collect the appraised value of rare books when they aren't returned.

via LISNews.com