Comments on: Found Bookmarks http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2008/06/19/found-bookmarks/ or, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference Desk Sun, 16 Apr 2017 14:36:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.4 By: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2008/06/19/found-bookmarks/#comment-563 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:22:02 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2008/06/19/found-bookmarks#comment-563 The sandwich might top all – how could they not notice it was in there when they dropped it off? Wow. Since I work in reference and not at the circ desk, I don’t get first crack and finding things in books. I know our circ desk does have a bin for recycling found bookmarks, and also a folder of photographs (in case library staff recognizes someone to return it). Most of the rest gets thrown away, sadly – a display of found items would be a lot of fun.

Oh, and since posting this, I found a report card from January 2008 in a book. Yay.

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By: Jill http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2008/06/19/found-bookmarks/#comment-562 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:18:43 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2008/06/19/found-bookmarks#comment-562 I once found a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in a returned book. It wasn’t messy as it sounds and appeared to be truly misplaced and not done as a prank.

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By: Kate http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2008/06/19/found-bookmarks/#comment-561 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:26:37 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2008/06/19/found-bookmarks#comment-561 Thanks for the link. 🙂

With you being a public librarian and all, I would have expected you to have found, or at least heard of, far more interesting bookmarks than a Pokémon card.

I am pretty sure I found money once when I worked at a public library – but only maybe $3. And pictures, and bills, and receipts, and the other usual things.

I am currently using a bookmark from the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Spain. Several were left in books donated to the academic library at which I previously worked.

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By: Maria http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2008/06/19/found-bookmarks/#comment-560 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:45:52 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2008/06/19/found-bookmarks#comment-560 Just wanted you to know how much I enjoy your blog! Always something either interesting, useful or laugh out loud funny. Thanks…

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By: Stephanie Willen Brown http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2008/06/19/found-bookmarks/#comment-559 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:30:57 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2008/06/19/found-bookmarks#comment-559 I wish there were a lost-n-found for important bookmarks left in books & returned to the library. My dad once wrote on a bookmark from his local bookstore & gave the book to me with the bookmark tucked inside. His note was pretty generic: “happy birthday, love dad” or some such, but it was very meaningful to me.

I was very happy to rediscover the bookmark after his death, and I used it for several months. Then I left it in a library book I returned. It’s gone into the Found Bookmarks pile, never to be seen again, and with no value to anyone else (unlike those $1,000 bills!).

I’d love to see a Where’s The Bookmark program. 🙂

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