Do you owe the library money?
By Adam Shown
The library is closed – everyone knows that. But what they don’t know is that even though the librarians aren’t loaning books any more this year, they still have a lot of work to do.
“I started with forty-nine pages of missing items,” Ms. Roush, OHS librarian of thirteen years, said. “Now I’m down to six. Some stuff has been missing for years, but most of it we definitely had back in January and February.” Some kids’ pockets are going to be hurting, though. “Some people have fines upwards of twenty or thirty dollars. Yes, it is possible – when you have three books out months past the due date, we’re talking about $12.60 a book.” And seniors beware – if you have outstanding fines, you can walk, but you can’t officially graduate.
Tiffany Mattox, 12th, has a fine. “I forget about it every day,” she said. Nickie Niquette, also 12th, said, “I think it’s disrespectful to not return the books because you’re depriving someone else who might want to read them.”
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