Hi.  I'm pretty new here and have been interested in your notes  to each 
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over the past few weeks...this one i can definitely relate to!
Sharon Davis wrote this to Laurene Wells:
SD> `W>>:)  If that were me saying that sentence, I'd usually have to add the 
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SD>   >>"over" just before the word "due". I'm always forgetting due dates, 
and
SD>   >>libraries have switched to a system where each book does NOT contain 
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SD>   >>date on a card inside. If I don't write the due dates down on my 
calend
SD>   >the
SD>   >>books are LATE!
SD> 
`W>   Your's too?  I hate this system!  They give me a little recipt (like 
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SD>   >might get from the grocery store) that has the due date written on it. 
 
SD>   >me
SD>   >old fashioned, but I just liked the dates stamped inside the books 
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My library does that receipt thing too--and it always gets lost.  Between two 
different libraries that I frequent, I probably owe $40.00 in late fees!  For 
awhile they were making us, the patrons, write our own due dates down--if we 
messed up, well, it's our problem.  They are not still using that system 
though, thankfully.  I do have to give them some credit because they will
telephone you to notify you of overdue books, but not ususally until the
books are already overdue by a week or more!  Well, like you, I wish they
would go back to the old system of having a card with the date stamped on it
inside of every book..  I know it takes more time, but...  Like you said,
they're probably just trying to find more creative ways to generate more
revenue. 
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