12 Years Overdue

Well...not necessarily. We found this 12 year old checkout receipt in the book "Cavalier in Buckskin" today during our afternoon bookdrop. Click the picture for a larger view. According to the receipt we were actually open on New Year's Day in 1996.

Since our resident library historian Vaun is off today, I couldn't ask when we abandoned the dot matrix receipt printers, but it had to be within a year or so of this receipt by my calculations. We have some ancient computer equipment in storage around the tech offices, but no printers capable of producing this.

You never know exactly what will fall out of a book when you pick it up here in the library. The really interesting part is that since we re-barcoded the book it has been checked out 29 times. That means that at least 29 people have seen this, maybe used it as a bookmark, and returned it with the book. Pretty amazing when you think about it.