LISNews: Librarian News

An Anonymous Patron sends this "follow-up from theQuad City Times about the library thief who apparently has had a change of heart.

"The thief who stolen almost 100 classic movies from the Maquoketa Public Library has returned all of them now.

Library Director Karen Manning found 38 more movies in the library’s drop box Friday morning. A week ago today, the box was overflowing with 53 movies.
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An Anonymous Patron sends "this story from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette about another rash of library thefts, this time in Westmoreland (PA) County. These Very Bad People allegedly swiped over $8000 worth of materials from various county libraries and sold them at flea markets."

The Eugene Police Department is charging a Eugene resident for stealing books from the Knight Library and then selling them on eBay, according to EPD Detective Steve Williams.
Williams said Douglas Collver allegedly sold about 250 "fairly obscure" books on the popular Internet auction site, most of which cost less than $100 although many were 75 to 150 years old. The books were not part of a special collection.
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Eugene (OR) police are looking for a man suspected of stealing hundreds of books from the University of Oregon's library. Armed with a search warrant, police found evidence that the man had put at least 300 books up for auction on eBay. The tip-off came from a dealer after he was asked by a buyer to repair a book with the University library's imprint. Most of the books were valuable because of their age, not rarity. The suspect, Douglas Collver, remains at large. More here from the Salem (OR) Statesman Journal.