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[unhipster]

IOWA CITY (AP) - An Iowa City woman is charged with theft for allegedly failing to return 53 DVDs she borrowed from the local public library

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[blueskydei]

I saw this on fark.com & we had a question that maybe you, as someone who works at a library, can answer it. How was she able to even check out fifty-three DVDs?

[unhipster]

That's a good question. At my library the limit is 7 dvds at a time. Most libraries that I know of have similar limits for videos, between 3-10 at a time. But maybe this library lacked a limit, or she knew how to get around it somehow.

[blueskydei]

I had a thought. Do you let kids have cards that are separate from their parents' accounts?

[unhipster]

Yes, we do.

[dragonbane]

That *is* an astoundingly large number. I don't think I can even check out more than ten BOOKS, I think DVDs are limited to 3. I mean, around here I could check out 2 or 3 from several different libraries, but not all from one.

[unhipster]

Yeah, it is weird that she was able to check out so many DVDs in the first place. I wonder if she obtained extra library cards fraudulently, or something.