August 15th, 2007 lucky lucky

a recently deceased patron of the library bequeathed us with some money (probably less than twenty thousand, but more than ten). it appears she wasn’t rich, as she lived at a very modest address, to say the least, but must have been a saver. bless her. her condition was that it all be spent on large print, which is my department. large print books usually cost about sixty dollars for a hardcover, so it’ll go only a certain distance, but i was just getting used to my usual tiny budget…

we make jokes sometimes about a regular who spend hours checking up the financial review, and then deliberately waits until five o’clock closing time on a friday to loiter and start photocopying his articles. maybe he’s secretly a multi-millionaire, and even less likely maybe when his time is up, we’ll be the lucky recipients of generosity to make up for the years of toying with our patience?

seriously, i had only just heard the news when i saw booktruck’s posting about wealthy patronage of libraries.