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Spotted: Abandoned Library Books

Sad reminders of the library strike found on Roncesvalles.

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SPOTTED BY: Torontoist Flickr Pool contributor Alejandro Santiago

WHERE: High Park Library, 228 Roncesvalles Avenue

WHEN: The evening of March 22

WHAT: As Toronto Public Library workers continue their strike small, visible signs of the disruption are starting to emerge. (The larger signs are much less visible—literacy levels being a hard thing to point at, and all.) The library has asked patrons to hang on to any materials they have checked out for the duration of the strike and return them when libraries are open again—book drop boxes have been locked for now. The strike began on March 18, after contract talks broke down with the City; the role of part-time workers is the biggest sticking point in negotiations.

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  • http://twitter.com/perfecto Perfecto

    I feel blessed to live in a City where people trust each other not to steal their books. After all, those are not the library’s books, they’re the library patrons’ — the patron is responsible for the full cover price of borrowed books when the library has no record that it has been duly received and returned.

    That said, branches are closed but it doesn’t mean nobody is inside. The library has non-union security officers monitoring the branches daily. The books in the photo (or at least what remained of them) were probably brought inside a few hours later.