Unofficial RHPL Collections: Bookmarks

It happens to all of us. You just got back from the library and were so eager to dive into the

new Danielle Steel, you didn't realize that you don’t have your favorite bookmark right there

beside you. So you grab the closest thing at hand. Last month’s DTE bill? Utilitarian. A

recipe for goulash you planned on making this week? Great. Your partner’s bookmark, slid

stealthily out of his equally new James Patterson?

Oh my. I wonder what that says about you? Maybe that you’re resourceful, crafty and have

a wicked sense of humor!

Every day, staff members in the Circulation Department process nearly 2000 items. As you

can imagine, we see quite a few forgotten bookmarks, actual and a little more unorthodox.

Here is an unofficial list of some of these little treasures:

1. Receipt from your last check-out (a perennial favorite among our patrons!)

2. Grocery list

3. Picture of kids in Pokemon Halloween costumes

4. Postcard from a Michigan Rave Festival

5. 2002 plane ticket, round-trip to Chicago

6. Swim School award ribbon

7. Pressed flowers in wax paper

8. Fancy cocktail napkin from Park 600

9. Signed Christmas card from 1921

10. 1978 Trigonometry Tables & Involute Functions booklet

If you’ve accidentally returned a book with your bookmark still in it, call us. If we believe it

has some sort of value to its owner, we keep it for at least a month. So if you’re wondering

where your favorite Hello Kitty–dressed-as-a-snow-bunny bookmark went, we might just

have it.