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The holidays are often a time of reflection and an opportunity to rectify past mistakes. For Chuck HildebrandtThis period of introspection proved fruitful. Resident of chicago and a native of Warren, the man decided to visit his hometown during the time of Thanksgiving. As part of the visit, he took the opportunity to return a baseball book that I had borrowed and had never returned to the local library in 50 years. To his surprise, due to the long period that had passed, the institution allowed him keep the book without imposing no fine.
“When you move with a lot of books, you don’t go through every one of them. You just put them in a box and leave,” Hildebrandt explained to The Associated Press. The man, who has lived in several cities, according to the agency, said that he was about five or six years ago when found the book not returned. Hildebrandt said that, while looking through his bookshelf, he noticed that one of the books had the decimal number of the Dewey Library. Upon examination, He recalled that in 1974, at the age of 13had borrowed from his children’s library Baseball’s craziest stars. The book had remained with him for five decades.
“You can keep it, there is no fine“They told him in the library when he showed up determined to correct his mistake. Although at first the man had not calculated it, in the end the condonation was not trivial. Considering that the original return date was December 4, 1974If they charged him the fine, the interest could have involved a very significant figure.
After this incident, as reported APHildebrandt had a meeting with the library directorOksana Urban, who listened attentively to his story. Urban reiterated that all was forgiven and no monetary compensation would be asked for or action would be taken against him. “Some people never come back to take responsibility.But in this case, there were really no responsibilities to assume, since the book and him had been eliminated from our system,” the official explained.
In 50 years, digitization throughmany records they had been erased and debtors and debts were not covered by the new system. At least not the ones who had five decades late and a single fault to his credit, as was the case with Hildebrandt.
Repair
In a gesture of gratitude and to correct his mistake, Hildebrandt decided to make a donation of 500 dollars to the library and promised to raise 4564 additional dollars for Reading is essentiala non-profit organization dedicated to promoting literacy through various educational programs to encourage the habit of reading in the community, especially among youth.
According to the calculations of AP, If the library had decided to collect the fine For the fifty years of delay in returning the book, Hildebrandt would have had to pay approximately five thousand dollars. A figure similar to the one he is now trying to raise for the community organization.
