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The Dead Man's Library Card: Why a Discarded Cookbook Returned
The Dead Man's Library Card: Why a Discarded Cookbook Returned
A discarded cookbook reappeared inside a locked library with a checkout card stamped WALTER COBB dated November 14, 2017 - ten weeks after Cobb’s death and three years after the book was officially removed for water damage. How did a deaccessioned volume return to a sealed branch, why was the door propped with a new block of cement, and whose hand wrote the final entry?
In this episode, you will hear the account of what happened at the Creekside Branch Library and how one library worker’s secret act became a fourteen-month…
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