The Editor,
Richmond Public Library holds no end of surprises, some good, some bad. The bad ones are mostly thanks to us, the library users. I’ve been discovering a spate of them, and I’m probably not alone in this.
What possesses people to razor-blade pages out of a library book, or even tear out whole sections?
Do they deliberately smear greasy, sticky substances on DVDs and CDs so that they will not play? I’ve even come across audiobook CDs that I couldn’t extract from their plastic sleeves, so firmly were they stuck.
But the most disgusting discovery was a flosser stick used as a bookmark — in a cookbook!
Library privileges involve certain obligations on our part, I think. The library staff serves us, but that doesn’t mean that they should have to clean up after us.
Sabine Eiche
Richmond
