BEWARE OF MEN WITH SALT AND PEPPER HAIR CARRYING NOTEBOOKS:

It began innocently enough.

"Do you have the new "pop culture mag that will remain anonymous here" magazine?"

"Our most current issue is on the floor."

"No, that was last weeks issue. I checked the catalog and it said the most current issue was in."

I checked the back room. I checked the carts. I checked to see if courier had arrived. After a few minutes of politely reassuring the man, "we no gotta de magazine", my manager had to delve into the catalog to show the man the item was, in fact, in transit--not in house. He then began to point out a disturbing trend in the theft of the magazine at our central distribution point. One magazine goes missing per week and it rotates between member libraries. It is obviously a conspiracy. How could we have been so blind? Thank God for magazine-man!


Did I mention, he comes in every Tuesday at 11 to view said magazine, notebook in hand, with the same result? This battle has been going on for months. We are currently raising funds to buy the poor man his own subscription.