Returning library books from Lake County to Sumter County.

[Taltarzac725]

Probably about 8 years ago I accidentally returned a Lake County book to the Sumter County Library at Belvedere. I tried to find out where it went after I had returned it but no one seemed to know. I ended up buying a replacement copy at Books-A-Million at the Lake Square Mall as our Barnes & Noble had not yet opened.

I was wondering if books returned at Lake County Libraries from Sumter County find their way back and vice versa?

If anyone has any experiences with this maybe who should try to improve things if this is still a problem in these two counties of Sumter and Lake. I believe that Lake and Marion Counties have reciprocal borrowing so that books returned in Lake County would courier to Marion as well as Marion returns would make it back to Lake County.

[zcaveman]

I didn't think that Sumter library reciprocates with either Lake or Marion so I don't think you will get what you want.

I live in Marion county and my understanding is that the only reason I can use the Sumter library system is because I live in the Villages.

I always make sure I return the books to the correct library.

Z

[juneroses]

The library systems of Lake and Sumter counties have reciprocity agreements with each other.

Lake and Marion also have reciprocity agreements with each other.

On the FAQ site of the Sumter County Library system it states: Sumter County Library System (Library) provides a free borrower�s card to any resident of the State of Florida who completes an application.

Trying to make sense of all this sharing, it seems that:

Lake and Marion County residents can borrow in all 3 counties
Sumter County residents can borrow in Sumter and Lake

[Topspinmo]

Hard cover books about as ancient as murals on cave walls or filing cabinets.:pepper2::posting::read::read:

[zcaveman]

Hard cover books about as ancient as murals on cave walls or filing cabinets.:pepper2::posting::read::read:

Not really. A lot of new library books are not available on the library E-book platforms yet.

I have had to go to the library to get these books.

Sumter has a better E-book offering that Lake but there is a long wait between the E-books. I don't think borrowers know they can return the E-book early so it sits on their carousel until it expires.

Z

[Taltarzac725]

The library systems of Lake and Sumter counties have reciprocity agreements with each other.

Lake and Marion also have reciprocity agreements with each other.

On the FAQ site of the Sumter County Library system it states: Sumter County Library System (Library) provides a free borrower’s card to any resident of the State of Florida who completes an application.

Trying to make sense of all this sharing, it seems that:

Lake and Marion County residents can borrow in all 3 counties
Sumter County residents can borrow in Sumter and Lake

I pay $40 annually as a Sumter County resident to borrow stuff at the Lake County Library System libraries.

It was eight years ago give-or-take when I returned a book to the wrong library. I have been very careful since then not to do this.

I was just trying to find out if there is still no courier between Lake and Sumter County for books? For instance, at least when I was living in Pinellas County, you could return a book at any public library in Pinellas County as well as school and academic libraries to any other library within a courier system. I sorted books returned from many different libraries when I was a volunteer at East Lake Community and Palm Harbor Libraries for 10-14 hours a week for about three years in 2000 through 2003.

[Taltarzac725]

I have been e-mailing some of the Circulation Department people or whatever e-mail address was available for information about this issue of books returned to the wrong library.

They do seem to make an effort to locate the library where the material came from and then call them so that that library can notify the library book borrower that they put the book in the wrong library's book drop.

There is no courier service between the two County library systems.

I am not going to start bugging librarians about my 224 613 Project to get practical materials into libraries for survivors/victims of crimes. I did this a great deal in Florida from 2000 through 2003, and Gary Corsair had done an article on me and this work back around Memorial Day in The Villages Daily Sun and I have been mentioning this on TOTV on-and-off probably shortly since I got on here in July of 2007, and I have been a big pest about it on Facebook.

I will mention it though and see what happens. I do think it is far time that librarians start taking an activist role in getting practical information into their libraries and ESPECIALLY on their web-sites for survivors/victims of crimes as well as for educating people about mental illness and its treatments as well as other stuff. :posting:

[Taltarzac725]

Some of the librarians in this tri-county area have interesting backgrounds. Does anyone know them personally? What kind of people are they? I have heard great things about the fairly new Library Director at Lady Lake Public Library and I have always enjoyed using that library. I have had a lot of very bad experiences with librarians on-and-off since 1991 but some are good, some bad, and some very ugly as far as morals and other things are involved. They are just people. Sometimes with way too much power.

I am just trying to think about how to approach the librarians here in the Villages ' area with my 224 613 Project. It is rather big- headed of me to assume that they know about it. I have put a huge amount of work at my and my family's considerable financial but more importantly emotional expense. As many of you know my interest stems from the 2-24-1976 murder of Michelle Mitchell near the University of Nevada, Reno campus. I was a student of Mrs. Barbara Mitchell, her mother who taught English at Earl Wooster High School. I went into the Central branch of the Washoe County Library in downtown Reno on February 28, 1976 to find materials to help my fellow students and myself cope with this investigation in which some of us were suspects. Not me as 2-24 is my birthday and I was at a birthday party of sorts when Michelle was killed. A lot of mistakes later they now probably have the right person of interest for Michelle Mitchell's murder in Rodney Halbower. He is the main suspect of a series of murders in 1976 in the San Francisco Bay area called the Gypsy Hill murders.

In 1976 though I became determined to do something about this niche but wanted to earn some degrees so that I had some credibility in the matter, I did get four of these (1980,1981,1984,1989) but when I rather meekly broached the issue I had my mental health made the issue rather than their actual addressing the problem of practical materials in libraries for survivors/victims of crime. Facebook, Twitter, apps, etc. in 2015 have drastically changed the information access options but there are still people who use public libraries as well as their web-sites for information. Lake, Marion, and Sumter County Library Systems are some of these libraries.

This story of mine would make a great novel or movie but there are some problems I envision with getting it past the lawyers because of how powerful some of the people involved in the story are. To counter these powerful people since 1991 I have tried to get some powerful people to help with this matter and have left no avenue untraveled in this effort of the 224 613 Project contacting politicians, writers, movie stars, movie studios, CEOs, associations like MADD and AAA, Consumer Reports, journalists, psychiatrists, many athletes as I feel they have a deeply engrained sense of fair play, etc.

I have a lot of the documents supporting my efforts up on Facebook in a Photobucket array. They should not be hard to find. Convict to face charges in gruesome cold-case 'Gypsy Hill Murders' - LA Times (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-convict-charges-gypsy-hill-murders-20150122-story.html) FBI links Peninsula cold case murders to Reno killing in 1976 - San Jose Mercury News (http://www.mercurynews.com/san-mateo-county-times/ci_25290884/fbi-links-peninsula-cold-case-murders-reno-killing)