Man tried to return overdue book 50 years late — but the library wasn’t buying it
Chuck Hildebrandt wanted to do the right thing and return his overdue sports book to the library 50 years late. The library wanted no part of it.
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50 years later, Detroit-area library says man can keep overdue book
Fifty years later, a man who grew up in suburban Detroit tried to return a very overdue baseball book to his boyhood library.
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Ten Stories That Shaped 2024
According to ChatGTP, below are the main themes of this year’s library headlines (using Library Link of the Day as the source): Highlighting state legislation targeting librarians, legal battles in ...
From the Archives: Polly Mellen Opens Up Her Beloved Connecticut Home to Vogue
On one level, a visit to Polly Allen Mellen feels like a visit to your cool granny—if Granny were recently in a Gap ad and ...
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Quiet solitude with a book, 1960
Paris, July 16, 1960: A patron sits on a stepstool by one of the large windows in the American Library in Paris, daylight ...
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Detroit-area library says Chicago man can keep overdue baseball book — 50 years later
Chuck Hildebrandt, 63, visited the library while in town for Thanksgiving, carrying a book titled "Baseball's Zaniest Stars." ...
‘These pieces are phenomenal’: Local poets put library’s ‘precious’ archival items at forefront in ‘From the Vault’
Shields said there is something beautiful about the book as a printed object, and many of the pieces in the collections, ...