Jordan Carver is my now my reference point for all women . . . But I digress.
Check this note from a rather important TKC TIPSTERS . . .
"Just called the Kansas City Public Library & if you owe $15.00 in fines you can no longer check out reading material. This change was effecitve January 01, 2012."
I'm sure this was in the back page of some local rag . . . But it's news to me and probably everyone else who hasn't cracked a book from anyplace but Barnes & Noble since college.
Somebody please wake the sleeping hobos at the Downtown (Central) Library and tell them they're running out of excuses to hang out.
But I digress - can't you come up with something more honest like I don't give a flying squat?
ReplyDeletePoor baby. $15 in fines is like 1,000 books overdue for 10 years. What a loser.
ReplyDelete3:50 - You obviously haven't been to the library in very long. They charge the full amount of the book if you don't return on the due date. Basically, this means if you haven't returned a book. You can't check out a new one. This is a major shift for book lending in KC.
ReplyDelete$15.00 can be reached if you happen to not return a book. Late fees are .10 a day up to $2.00 & after 30 days they charge the cost of the book until the book is returned, in which case they use $30 as the default amount.
ReplyDelete3:56, Thanks for actually using facts.
ReplyDeleteI know what your trying to do.
ReplyDeleteWow, fuck them. Looks like I will be going to Mid Continent.
ReplyDelete"Let me tell you something, funny boy... You know that little stamp? The one that says New York Public Library? Well, that may not mean anything to you, but that means a lot to me. One whole helluva lot. Sure, go ahead, laugh if you want to. I've seen your type before -- flashy, making the scene, flaunting convention. Yeah, I know what you're thinking... Why's this guy making such a big stink about old library books? Let me give you a hint, junior. Maybe we can live without libraries, people like you and me.... Maybe. Sure, we're too old to change the world. What about that kid, sitting down, opening a book right now in a branch of the local library and finding pictures of pee-pees and wee-wees in The Cat in the Hat and The Five Chinese Brothers. Doesn't he deserve better? Look, if you think this is about overdue fines and missing books, you'd better think again. This is about that kid's right to read a book without getting his mind warped. Or maybe that turns you on, Seinfeld... Maybe that's how you get your kicks... You and your goodtime buddies... I've got a flash for you, joy boy. Partytime is over."
ReplyDeleteThere is dumbassery going on in the golden ghetto too....apparently JO CO Library offered an early retirement option to their employees and a larger than expected # of them took it. As a result, they claim they don't have enough employees to adequately staff all the libraries and they don't want to hire more people. Their brilliant solution: some branches will not be open on Fridays and Sundays and ALL branches will close at 5pm Wednesday nights. If anyone needs to use the internet or do research on Wed. nights in Johnson County, you are now SOL as far as the JO CO Library is concerned. Your tax dollars at work. Thanks JO CO Commission, worthless losers.
ReplyDeleteFYI, The daily fine for an overdue book in the golden ghetto is $.30 per book per day.
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ReplyDeleteThis is absurd. I've been using the Kansas City Public Library and the Mid-Continent Library for decades and never had a problem with any of this.
ReplyDeleteIf you check out a book (and it's usually more than one, I'm sure) and you don't return it (them), for TWO MONTHS why would they allow you to then check out more books? They are in the business of making books available to the reading public, not stocking your home library.
If you don't finish the book on time (or you can't locate it when the time comes) you can almost always (with the exception of new books)renew it by going to the library, calling, or going online.
If you are so pathetic that you can't do any of those things, perhaps you don't deserve the privilege of using the Library.