Once the card was approved, the man checked out 50 books on topics that included Jewish history, African-American history and LGBTQ education.
The following day, CCPL heard from the Princeton University Bridging Divides Initiative (PUBDI), a group that monitors and reports suspected hate crimes on social media.
PUBDI informed CCPL that the man had posted a photo to a social media site April 3 that showed a car trunk full of books, with a caption relating to “cleansing” the libraries
Sometimes people accidentally refile books in the wrong section in the library. It would be unlikely but possible for all 100 of these books to have this happen to them. They don't even need to be checked out. Also sometimes people check things out and mistakenly bring them back without checking them in, so they get filed but the system thinks they're checked out so people don't try to find them on the shelf. Various things can happen that make books they have seem like they're gone...
Prairie 1 points 4 hours ago
Sometimes people accidentally refile books in the wrong section in the library. It would be unlikely but possible for all 100 of these books to have this happen to them. They don't even need to be checked out. Also sometimes people check things out and mistakenly bring them back without checking them in, so they get filed but the system thinks they're checked out so people don't try to find them on the shelf. Various things can happen that make books they have seem like they're gone...