My, how time flies…
Human interest, I
know.
A Finnish library-goer apparently thought ‘better late than never‘ and quietly returned a book on loan for more than 100 years to a library in Vantaa, in southern Finland.
The library had long since lost track of the loan but welcomed back to its collections the bound copy of a 1902 volume of Vartija, an active religious monthly periodical at the time…
The library sticker inside the cover, and the old-fashioned handwriting on it, showed the book was last officially loaned out at the beginning of the last century, she said.
Finland is known for a comprehensive library network with more than 900 libraries for its 5.3 million inhabitants. In 2006, each Finn on average visited a library 11 times and borrowed nearly 20 books.
The weekly trip to the library was a real high when I was growing up. Do kids read, nowadays.
Posted: Wed - March 12, 2008 at 09:20 AM