{"id":2056,"date":"2015-10-22T10:43:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T16:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:18:13","slug":"way-way-overdue-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2015\/10\/22\/way-way-overdue-books\/","title":{"rendered":"way, way overdue books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hellogiggles.com\/returned-library-books-note\/?xid=socialflow_facebook_peoplemag\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2057\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/10\/oldlibrarybooksweb_01.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"OldLibraryBooksweb_01\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/10\/oldlibrarybooksweb_01.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/10\/oldlibrarybooksweb_01-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Many libraries have stories of overdue books being returned decades after they were borrowed. <a href=\"http:\/\/hellogiggles.com\/returned-library-books-note\/?xid=socialflow_facebook_peoplemag\">Portland State<\/a> recently received a book 52 years overdue. This beats Colorado College&#8217;s figures: in 2005, we received books 25 and 45 years overdue. (See the <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcc.coloradocollege.edu\/islandora\/object\/coccc%3A3229\">full story<\/a> in the Winter 2006 issue of the library newsletter.) But we&#8217;re nowhere near the record: 221 years. The perpetrator? George Washington. I kid you not. See the full story <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/55621\/11-ridiculously-overdue-library-books-were-finally-returned\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many libraries have stories of overdue books being returned decades after they were borrowed. Portland State recently received a book 52 years overdue. This beats Colorado College&#8217;s figures: in 2005, we received books 25 and 45 years overdue. (See the full story in the Winter 2006 issue of the library newsletter.) But we&#8217;re nowhere near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-xa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3969,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions\/3969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}