I only have two short things to share with you all today, but I wanted to get a post out anyway.
Firstly, our Dummies books are coming home this Wednesday (August 3rd). Yay! They're having a reception/celebration at HQ, if any of you in the area want to come help us celebrate! We'll also be putting stickers in all of the books to mark that they were won in the contest, and so you can come help with that as well :) For more information, check out the fb event.
Secondly, we had the most ridiculous thing happen yesterday involving a Terry Goodkind fan/library patron. I walked behind the help desk and saw this huge stack of Terry Goodkind books, probably 8-9 tall. I made a comment to my supervisor along the lines of "Wow, somebody's a Terry Goodkind fan."
She replied, "Yeah, such a fan that she took all of the barcodes and RFID tags off. And she's had these since February."
Apparently, this woman came into the library, placed the stack of books on the counter, said that they were "lost" and that she had found them, and that she was in a hurry so to just "let her know" about charges and such. But she had taken off all of the barcodes and RFID tags off... meaning that there was no way to track the books. And, because both of those things are really stuck on, ripping them off pretty much ruins the books' appearance. Luckily, one of the books was covered in Mylar, and she didn't manage to get that barcode off, so she could be traced in the system and be charged appropriately (meaning she gets the maximum late fee charge on EVERY book). But seriously? Who does that?
