This is what made Seinfeld — the show about nothing —brilliant. It could turn an every day situation into comic gold. In the 1990s, when library budgets were tight and being slashed, aggressive collection tactics were common. Many libraries brought those with outstanding fines or debts to small claims court; libraries hired collection agencies to recoup fines; some garnished tax refunds; and others put possible criminal sanctions in notifications to scare customers straight, including “imprisonment of up to six months.” As an executive director of a library on Long Island said at the time, “We’re not interested in the goodwill of deadbeats.”
Where they steal children
“Gone is the friendly, welcoming dynamic which exists in slum areas of Africa and India. In Neza, children peer cautiously out of windows, instead…