See also this slip from a book borrowed just twice, in 1941 and again forty-one years later.
[There’s a watermark on this slip, not visible in the scan: DARD, missing, I assume the STAN.]
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Library slip (1934–1992)
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It’s kind of amazing that a library would keep unread books on the shelf for 40+ years.
And how. Today such a book would likely be “deaccessioned.”
I miss those. When I was in maybe second grade, we had a field trip to the library, where each of us plunked down a nickel for a manila library card, which the librarian had typed. I thought it was amazing to spend a whole nickel! I miss these stamped cards so much. I think the Harold Washington Library prints store-style receipts, and my library card is plastic with a bar code.
Ye olde library, still going and not much changed, surprisingly:
https://flic.kr/p/t4uCnT
https://flic.kr/p/tHKJHC
My public library does receipts, but the university library still stamps every book.
That last date looks just like my dad's printing, especially the 92.
Is it possible that the book wasn't borrowed just a few times, but that the slip was used only a few times? As far as I recall, our library didn't keep these slips in a book but in a stack. When you brought up a book to check out, the staff person would stamp the slip and stick it in. (This thought was lurking at the back of my poor decaying mind.)
I know the kind of slip you mean. But this kind is glued to the flyleaf. So it’s a record for just this book.
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