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Not just pricey European prints: West End photos go missing from BPL
By adamg on Wed, 07/01/2015 - 11:59am
Anthony Sammarco reports somebody borrowed a collection of photos and documents related to the old West End from the BPL's West End branch and then just never returned them.
A collection of West End photographs and archives was loaned to someone who has not returned it to the West End Library. We are looking to recreate a collection on the Lost West End. Any photographs or materials on the once thriving neighborhood would be greatly appreciated. Please send to West End Library, 151 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114. Let's recreate what has been lost by theft.
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Do they know who borrowed it?
Surely the borrower was required to have a valid BPL card?
I'm wondering if it ended up in probate
If they were in the possession of someone who passed away, they might have been distributed amongst heirs or sold as part of the estate.
When I cleaned out my parents' house, there were a couple of artworks that were stamped "Multnomah County Library". I called them to ask if they had been sold off or if they were part of the loan program. Turns out that they were a couple years overdue (my Mom had gotten them and my Dad, who died 3 years later, wasn't aware that they were due back).
Buried with Leonard Nimoy?
Buried with Leonard Nimoy?
Imagine the library fines
if they find where they went.
Actually
A lot of libraries cap fines at a maximum (say, $4), as long as an item is returned. Otherwise, people would never bother to return long-overdue things!
What a shame. Hope the
What a shame. Hope the photographs are recovered with little or no damage.
About two years ago I put in a request to look at a non-circulating original diary from the first half of the 1900's that was held in the arts dept. in the old McKim building. I showed them my valid BPL card, filled out the slip which I believe included my name and address, and then they brought it out for me to look at on a table right in front of the librarian's desk. I was told not to move the diary from that table. The librarian was absolutely watching me. Ordinary library users are likely not the ones swiping these valuables. Seems to me that it's an employee who is facilitating the 'lending' shall we say.
The BPL may as well let us know all of the bad news now. Anything else missing?
The West End is
also missing.
the West End was probably
the West End was probably just misfiled. it'll turn up eventually.
Perhaps they returned them to
Perhaps they returned them to the North End branch since the West End is missing