Damaged library books get new life

BY RICK ALLEN
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Published: Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 7:30 a.m.

Did Maj. Dirk Pitt defeat the smuggling ring run by a missing Nazi war criminal and return the Aegean to rights?

Good question. And it might have gone unanswered forever if not for a few unsung heroes toiling unnoticed in a back room at the Marion County Public Library headquarters building.

The final page in Clive Cussler's inaugural paperback, "The Mediterranean Caper," was missing in action when the little book came home to the library a couple of weeks ago.

A popular tome, "The Mediterranean Caper" has gone into action 81 times since 1973; but there would be no 82nd campaign with an MIA ending.

"We managed to scan in the last page from another copy and reinsert it," says Carol Durrence, who oversees processing of every book in and out the doors of the library system.

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Oh man, how mad would you be if you checked a book out of the library and got all the way to the end but couldn't finish it?!? Great work by the library staff to keep an excellent book in circulation. th:

I bought a book a few years ago that had 3 of the middle chapters missing. I was really pi**ed. The book was brand new. Good work to your librayr!!! What a great book too!!!

Like the book I won on ebay a few months ago .... no back page! <_<

I borrowed a copy of lost city from a mate and it was missing the last chapters so I had to go and buy it

th: th: to the library!

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