Here is something you might find interesting. It is from the Guinness Book of Records 1995. The record for an unreturned and overdue library book was set when a book published in 1609 was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Great Britain by Colonel Robert Walpole in 1667. It was found by Professor Sir John Plumb in a library at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Great Britain and returned 288 years later. No fine was exacted.

The most overdue book in the United States was a book on febrile diseases by Dr. J. Currie which was checked out in 1823 from the University of Cincinnati Medical Library and returned December 7, l968, by the borrower's great-grandson, Richard Dodd. The calculated fine of $2,264 was waived. (1)

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