100 year old Library Book Finally Returned


	100 year old Library Book Finally Returned

selkie

3-29-2008 3:13 AM

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selkie says:

As they say, better late then never.

Who are "they" anyways? Does anyone have any idea? I think its a conspiracy.

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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.<SPAN id="midArticle_byline"></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKL1180241320080311?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews"><P> 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.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKL1180241320080311?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews"><P> "We are unclear when exactly it was borrowed and who
returned it. There weren't any documents with it," librarian
Minna Saastamoinen told Reuters.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKL1180241320080311?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews"><P> "There is an old note attached to the book which says there
is a fine of 10 pennies a week for late returns," she added.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKL1180241320080311?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews">the book was last officially loaned
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Korso branch of the Vantaa library, where the tome was finally
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