“Although I’m not encouraging you to check something out TODAY and return late enough to beat the record, which would be… January 1st, 2061. “If anyone can beat the current record of 13,437 days, I’m offering you total amnesty for the safe return of your items,” library officials wrote in a Facebook post Monday about the belated return. That copy is headed for an archive, library officials said, but a different copy is attainable through a catalog of nearly 200 academic, public and special libraries in Colorado and Wyoming. The returned copy features a psychedelic cover design atop a dinged-up blue background with frayed corners and a peeling spine. The district now only charges the price of the book if it’s returned 42 days after its due date, Miller said. The High Plains Library District stopped charging late fines a few years ago. Miller had no way of knowing who checked out the item, but even if she did, the unpunctual patron is in luck. The book was so old, it was no longer in the district’s system, which has long since abandoned the stamping method in favor of barcode checkouts, Miller said. Not only was the book worse for wear, but it was stamped as a book from the Weld County Library, indicating it was checked out before the library district formed in 2008. When Kaylee Miller, a library materials supervisor with the High Plains Library District in Weld County, saw a book returned to the drive-up book drop at the Riverside Library and Cultural Center in Evans last week, she suspected it was long overdue. “Psychedelics” by Bernard Aaronson and Humphry Osmond - a 1970 dispatch that includes first-hand reports of psychedelic experiences, scientific theories and the sociology of drugs - was due back to the Weld County Library in Greeley on May 30, 1987. What a long, strange trip it’s been for one very overdue High Plains Library District book - 36 years, 9 months and 13 days, to be exact. (Photo via High Plains Library District on Facebook) The book “Psychedelics” by Bernard Aaronson and Humphry Osmond was returned to Weld County’s High Plains Library District more than 36 years late.
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