Library Creates Fake Patron Records To Avoid Book-Purging (heraldnet.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Chuck Finley checked out 2,361 books from a Florida library in just nine months, increasing their total circulation by 3.9%. But he doesn't exist. "The fictional character was concocted by two employees at the library, complete with a false address and driver's license number," according to the Orlando Sentinel. The department overseeing the library acknowledges their general rule is "if something isn't circulated in one to two years, it's typically weeded out of circulation." So the fake patron scheme was concocted by a library assistant working with the library's branch supervisor, who "said he wanted to avoid having to later repurchase books purged from the shelf." But according to the newspaper the branch supervisor "said the same thing is being done at other libraries, too."

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Books are read by decadent liberals

[Anonymous Coward]

Books are read by decadent liberals in search of dubious pleasures.

Time to burn them all.

There is much work to be done - Trump can't come soon enough.

Re:Good for them

[HornWumpus]

Liberals know they have lost in the marketplace of ideas, they have lost politically.

But they have got control of the public schools and liberal arts schools in colleges.

Talk to any kid in HS to get an idea of how misinformed they are. It's on purpose.

Re:Good for them

[HornWumpus]

No I don't, because it's a steaming pile of bullshit.

There are two 'major' curricula sets. Texas and California. For every right wing distortion in the Texas books there are three left wing distortions in the California books.