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[commotiocordis]

Umm, evidently there's some fine on my public library record for something called "Kingdom Keepers" because it's missing disk number 4. And it's $15. I've never heard of that. Pretty sure I've never checked it out. The library people have been fucking up my account lately. For example. I returned a bunch of stuff. A while ago. A few days ago, it was still on my record as checked out and accumulating fines. WTF? I go back today, and some of it's gone from the record, but the fines that accumulated after I gave it back but before they checked it in are still there. So, um, thanks guys. Because of this crap, my account's past the fine limit and I can't renew these books that I've got out, which are now, as a result, accumulating more fines.

Thanks, guys. Not even cool. What happened to the old public library? The one I walked down to each day and started helping them shelve books in preschool? The one where bureaucratic crap was trumped by reading every time? It's gone. I don't like it.

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[lfae.livejournal.com]

Omg. I keep getting text messages from a video library in Bendigo reminding me of overdue rentals. Bendigo is like three hours away and I've never been there IN MY LIFE. Okay, not exactly the same thing, but still, it's weird how easy it is for them to get it wrong. And yeah, what happened to the days when you had little paper cards and little pockets in the backs of books and date stamps and stuff that COULDN'T get fucked up by a computer?!

[xakana.livejournal.com]

You think that's bad? One of our libraries sends out fines to a collections company and lowers your credit score if you don't return them. O_o Very obnoxious.