Physiology book MIA

The book has vanished. No forwarding address not even a goodbye. Oh the sadness. If it wasn't so darn popular no one would care. But you see, this book gets around, if you know what I mean, the only copy. I presume that someone decided to give this book a good home, maybe it followed a student home.

The necessity to hoard books has become an interesting topic of discussion. It really is a study in human behavior. Everyone (students) feels entitled to every library resource as though it were put there for them and them alone. They're pissed off when they forget their ID and are asked to sign in or go and get it, but guaranteed, if we didn't check IDs and the place filled up with hobos (which is what happens at X State University) the students would be like, "This is our library. Why don't you check IDs?" And they get all twitchy when the book they want isn't available, but they'll still run off and hide that self same book in amongst the works of Freud on the lower level so that no one else can use it.

If only we could tag the patrons a la penguins or squirrels in a biology experiment!

"Subject 241 has snuck a book out of the reserve room and is looking around furtively. Subject is stashing the book behind their labcoat in a cubbyhole. It looks like Subject 241 will be well-prepared for the long winter ahead."