Summary
A man checked out 100 books from Beachwood Library in Beachwood, Ohio, covering Jewish history, African-American history, and LGBTQ topics, and later posted social media videos showing the books with captions referencing “cleansing” libraries before burning them.
Princeton University’s Bridging Divides Initiative alerted the library about the posts.
The books were worth about $1,700. Since they are not overdue, the library will bill the man later.
Police say the matter is civil unless he fails to pay. He is now banned from returning to the library.
The library should be taking this douches nozzle to collections, and replacing the destroyed materials.
I think that’s the point. But legally they have to wait for them to be overdue. At least that’s my understanding.
Shouldn’t be too long, most libraries have a 4-wk lending period.
They might get auto-renewed for another 4 weeks, unless someone’s requested the book (which usually disables auto-renewal).
True, but not all libraries have auto-renewal circ policies in place