{"id":144730,"date":"2022-02-18T10:47:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T01:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=144730&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2022-02-18T10:47:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T01:47:53","slug":"fukuoka-libraries-missing-over-19000-books","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuoka-libraries-missing-over-19000-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka Libraries Missing Over 19,000 Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over 19,000 books remain unreturned to libraries in Fukuoka City since three years ago. While many people enjoy reading at home amid the ongoing pandemic, the city\u2019s main library in Momochi and its ten branches revealed the shocking number back in Oct. 2021. Some 3,000 books remain unreturned for twenty years. Municipal libraries usually send email and phone notifications to users at the seven-day overdue point, then mail out printed reminders regularly after a month. The cost of those reminders comes to about \u00a5150,000 each year and cuts into funds that could be used to buy new books. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20220216\/5010014899.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-133006\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/momo-now-library-WEB-001.jpg?resize=1400%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/momo-now-library-WEB-001.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/momo-now-library-WEB-001.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/momo-now-library-WEB-001.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/momo-now-library-WEB-001.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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While many people enjoy reading at home amid the ongoing pandemic, the city\u2019s main library in Momochi and its ten branches revealed the shocking number back in Oct. 2021&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":133006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-144730","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/144730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}