A Massachusetts library is celebrating the return of an overdue library book– after more than a century VERBATIM: The book written by James Clerk Maxwell is an 1881 edition of “An Elementary Treatise on Electricity”. It was last checked out from the New Bedford Free Public Library on Valentine’s Day, February 14th, 1904. It would […]
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A Massachusetts library is celebrating the return of an overdue library book– after more than a century
A Massachusetts library is celebrating the return of an overdue library book– after more than a century
VERBATIM:
The book written by James Clerk Maxwell is an 1881 edition of “An Elementary Treatise on Electricity”. It was last checked out from the New Bedford Free Public Library on Valentine’s Day, February 14th, 1904. It would take 119 years an alert librarian in West Virginia to discover the missing the volume and restore it to its original home. The fine, at 5-cents-per-day late fee would tally to more than $2,100. The silver lining is the library’s maximum late fee is only $2. the New Beford Libratian’s moral: It’s never too late to return a library book.