Durability Of Books...Late Fees —Cagle

IT SEEMS that no matter how long a book is checked out from the public library, it will eventually return. But, we may have found the record for the most overdue tome in the history of libraries.

Late last year a book titled "Facts I Ought to Know About the Government of My Country" made its way back to the New Bedford Public Library in Massachusetts. How old was the book? The loss of President McKinley was still fresh on the minds of many, and no one outside of Baltimore's slums had ever heard the name Babe Ruth. The book was due May 10, 1910, nearly 100 years ago.