For Gratitude Monday
today, I’m grateful that the Sunnyvale Public library finally transferred the
Santa Clara County Library book that I accidentally turned into them back to SCCL.
I admit full
culpability—I thought I checked that it was a SPL book before I took it in, but
obviously I didn’t check carefully enough. I’m also not sure why their
computerized system accepted it—in the past, it’s rejected books from other
systems. This time it took it, but just receipted it with a barcode, not the
title.
Then, when I got the “you’ve
got books coming due” notice from SCCL, I realized what I’d done. I went to SPL
to see if they’d shelved it—if they had, surely their system wouldn’t have let
anyone check it out, right?
Well—not on the
shelves and not in their collection of “books from other library systems”. The
person at the information desk said they’d send it off to SCCL, but “it takes
time.”
“Time” is apparently
nine days.
I renewed it
electronically, and kept checking SCCL online every day for its return. And finally—O bliss—it was
off my “checked-out” list.
I’m really grateful I
didn’t have to pay for it. It wasn’t that good a book.
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