If you are hoarding books instead of returning them you are TA. There are other people who wantvto ise those books.

She's the a*****e, she could easily return them, and then take them out again if she needed them that badly. or, and hear me out, she could write down and take notes of the important info she needs from these books for future reference. "i wasn't done with them ;-;" isn't how libraries work, and if you can't understand how a library works then what the hell are you doing in university? She SHOULD be made to pay the costs. What if some other students needed these books but couldn't access them cos of her? What if they fail because of her selfishness?

'the books aren't lost' - she kept them for YEARS. To the library, it's considered stolen so yes, they were lost.

No, she has not really learned much. Her idea that still using something overdue is not stealing says a lot. She is a lesson to everyone to never let this woman borrow anything from anyone. I think the library was way too lenient in dropping the fines. So what no one requested them. Many times if someone sees something unavailable they want they don't bother putting in a request and wait it out. They just assume it's out of stock. This is pretty s****y what she's doing. She could've saved herself a ton of space, trouble, money by doing some research online.

On what planet does this person live?! It is not okay to borrow almost 120 books and not return them. Borrow a few, use them, make notes, return them. If you need the books for longer, you extend the borrowing period. It might just be an email or a phone call to the library to arrange this. To hoard books in this way is incredibly selfish.

Study books are expensive and you're literally hoarding them, if they're overdue for so long, it's not wrong for the library to just assume you've lost them. The fine is likely what it'll cost them to replace those 119 books. Don't be an a*s and return your library books. Heck, *ask* for an extended loan term if you need one.

She thinks people are actually going to be on her side? Why does she say it's not stealing when it quite literally is. You took something and did not return it for years. That would be stealing.

What a total A$$! Are there no other students, professors, research assistants, visiting scholars etc. also studying medieval history? Does she not see how very rude this is to them!!!!

I feel bad for the librarian who eventually (hopefully) has to sort and reshelve all those books. Yes, they probably reshelve a bunch of books every day, but 119 books would probably be a noticable increase in their workload.

Sorry, I think this whole story is bogus. First, PhD students have expanded borrowing times. Also, usually if you need a book for longer than a month your advisor will check it out for you, and that is good for an entire semester. Secondly, having written a dissertation myself, I know that there are very few books that she needs the entire content of. Usually you need a page or two, at most a chapter. So you photocopy the parts you need, plus the title page and publishing info, and then return it to the library. Someone who has 119 books out is someone who is not meeting with their advisor.

Sounds about right. There was a strict system for dissertation book loans when I was there- we got priority and had a waiting list for certain books (you wrote them down in the planning stages and handed it in to the librarian), but we had to make sure to return them on time. There is guaranteed to be someone on your course who needs the same book, and when you need multiple books, that overlap multiplies. It doesn't matter how niche you think your topic is- there will definitely be someone else who needs it. Hoarding them and being shocked that they had the audacity to pull you up on that is incredibly selfish and entitled.

i'm a library aide and this hurts me

I just looked at the original replies to the OP and it looks like the majority of people took issue with it. The write up makes it seem like everyone just laughed.

Maybe you should have returned them on time? And maybe when you grow up, you'll realize the world doesn't revolve around you.

On the one hand, a PhD takes 4-5 years to complete, and OP has said no one has requested the books yet. Every university I've attended has an online system to search for books so if a student really wanted one of the 119 books she has, they would know it exists. Alternatively, OP could attempt to find digital versions of the books and keep only those without. Source: me, a grad student.

How do you use a library, know how many books you're allowed to check out at one time due to your education status, and yet don't understand how to take notes, renew books, idk go to the library and use the books there while at the library?

I hope rental car companies are taking note of this individual (smh)

You don't know if other people needed them--if the circulation system said they were lost and interlibrary loan wasn't going to be an option, someone was maybe screwed. Or they couldn't wait for a recall, or if it's an open stack library, they may have wanted to just photocopy a bit and not finding a vol. on the shelf figured it would be too much time to do a recall and so just had to do without that content. I've been a grad student-- it's not a joke

You are so the AH. You are depriving others of this resource. Selfish. Nasty Take your own notes and bring the books back. Check out just a few at a time. I sincerely hope your dissertation is tossed in the garbage due to cheating. For not allowing other students to use these resources. Can someone fits own who she is and her school, and notify the dean and get this selfish person rejected?

Relax everyone.

You SUCK. Simply put. I hope they add that to your bill. You deserve it.

She is being extremely selfish! Most people just look on the selves for books that they need. She is hording books that others would have needed instead if taking notes on some books than returning them to take out other books. She is taking the lazy way out at the expense of others. Shame on her.

It is quite telling that the dumbest most ignorant comments in this thread come from the most "educated" ....

These are the idiots we are going to be depending on to run things for the years to come....

Om disse bøkene var så viktige for deg, så viktige at du ødelegger for andre som trenger de, så kjøp de

"no one requested them" ofc no one requested the books, BCOZ she fking took it, what an asshle, she the problem but act like the victim, the Library should fine her more, i know 12k is alot and in my opinion that also not sound fair but $20 ??!! Tf ?

She Phd student with behavior like that ? What a fuckep education

These comments lighting her up dang. You guys are toxic like chill. She was allowed to renew them. Nobody else was requesting or waiting on them. She's using them for her dissertation that doesn't mean she's reading ALL of them at once or even using the whole book for all of them maybe only parts for specific information. Everyone nowadays on the Internet just wants to jump to being so negative. Sad.

Good thing she resolved the issue quickly. Her library might have had to bring in Lt. Joe Bookman for her case.

Who wrote this nonsense? It definitely was Galileo Galilee...

The entitlement.

"No one has wanted them". No. I'm sure many other students taking the same classes have gone to look for them, not found them, and had to get it somewhere else. OP mean "no one has gone through the process of filling out a request" which is entirely different. OP is TA.

You are a total AH. No wonder the books people might want to use are never in the library. That was just a selfish thing to do. All you had to do was re-reserve the books. Or scan or take notes from those books and return them like everybody else. Whatever career path you choose, whether it's writing or teaching, I hope you're a little bit more thoughtful of the world around you. There's an entire world out there that doesn't revolve around you. By posting this for the world, I hope it's getting you the attention you hoped for.

Well, at least there is a young person who actually knows what a library is and how to use it to find information. I remember years ago in the late 90’s, taking a summer course, doing some research for an essay one Sunday afternoon at my university library, when I saw a group of my fellow classmates, looking all confused. They literally didn’t know how to use the system to look up how to find research papers, so I had to show them. They apparently didn’t know either how to approach one of the library assistants on the main floor. And this was a third year course…

Very selfish

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You are the jerk. You are the nasty, entitled, skanky, dishonest jerk. You haven't borrowed them. You have them in your possession. And what do we call it when we have something in our POSSESSION THAT DOES NOT BELONG TO US? Stealing, and you are a thief. And, why is it taking you so long to finish your dissertation. Lack of understanding?

Ordinarily, the overdue fine should not exceed the replacement cost of the book.