$12,000 worth of destroyed books.
I wonder if people know that this is happening?
What are the chances that this latest sign of the depth of our problems is not even acknowledged, much less understood, by those who do not have a professional interest or are not predisposed to attention by personal experience?
Notice that the library patron was not unaware of the problem.
Nothing but questions, right?
Here’s one more: what are the odds that in all of Denver there will not be a single agency or individual assuming responsibility for the obviously necessary task of eradicating this infestation? I mean, of course, the infestation in the patron’s home, not at the Denver Public Library.
This is someone’s job. Whose?
UPDATE – September 24:
That may well be the Catholic Archdiocese of Denver. The library patron is a retired poet and minister and… Gutenberg Project volunteer.
He kept (keeps?) the books stacked on the floor next to his bed, many of them inter-library loan books.
He is… thinking of suing.
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