Library Employee Charged with Credit Card Theft

"A former Des Moines Library Foundation employee is accused of using the organization’s credit card to steal money.  Stephen Haider was arrested Monday and charged with first degree theft and unauthorized use of credit cards. Both are felony charges."

Why can't people understand?  If you are going to steal from a library, there are much easier ways to do it.  Like everybody everywhere does all the time.  Just check out a bunch of stuff and turn it around on eBay, like normal Americans.  Plus, if you have the inside ticket, stay away from the damn credit cards.  

I mean, think about the children.  Whatever that means.

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LIBRARY THIEF: Former Employee Charged WHOTV.com A former Des Moines Library Foundation employee is accused of using the organization's credit card to steal money. Stephen Haider was arrested Monday and charged with first degree theft and unauthorized use of credit cards. Both are felony charges.

Library Does Not Understand Why Someone Would Steal Television

After their 42-inch television was stolen, Madison County Library employees cannot fathom why anyone would want to take the relic. 

Seriously, why would anyone bother to take such a bygone item of technology?  What's next, a rash of iPhone 4 thefts?  That television must date back to the middle of Obama's administration it is so old.  That television is so old (how old was it?) they could have watched the last episode of House on it.  Just wow, why would that happen?

Library 'baffled' by theft of 42-inch TV - Richmond Register

Law Library: Masturbating, Fired, and Jailed

Here's all the crime that happened in and around libraries,  library environments, or tech that probably will or have involved the courts in some way:

Librarians in Conway Public Library file grievance against restructuring that could get them sacked.  Let's hope more paperwork will fix the situation.

St. Elmo ex-librarian steals $50,000 worth of materials and gets little jail time.  Because, hey, it's only a library.

65-year-old former library employee arrested for stealing $800,000 worth of books.  She took one page a day for her entire life.

Some guy called a library asking about '50 Shades of Grey" and made it his own sex line.  This is why I do not read books to people over the phone.

New York woman tracks down stalker through Google, sues him.  This is why I do not read books to people over the phone, too.

Library Assistant Arrested After Bringing Books Back to Library

After bringing library books back late, a full-time library assistant at the Easton Public Library in Easton, Conn. has been arrested.  The director of the library, Judy Baldino, says the assistant, Nancy Harris, has a history of checking out books on hers and her children's library cards and not returning them despite her children not being eligible to have library cards in the area.  Harris has since brought back most of the materials and been granted early retirement.

So when does drama in the workplace extend into legal matters?  I cannot and will not speculate on what kind of soap opera bull-hockey that has happened behind the scenes that lead to the cops being called in, but I can bet something akin to a family feud has been brewing for a while to get this to go down.

Arresting library assistants for abusing their power?  That's what they do!  I get that it is hard to let go of a pain in the butt employee in a public library environment, but getting criminal charges to do so?  I think these folks need Dr. Phil to sit them all down for some good old fashion communication.

Trumbull woman arrested for returning books late to library - Ct Post:

Not So Sexy Library Peoples

Okay, let's point out how fun it can be to work in a library by turning a flashlight on two wonderful patrons:

An on-duty firefighter caught a Cambridge, Mass man looking at porn and masturbating in the Waterton Public Library.  The firefighter was in the fire station and just happened to look through his window and noticed the man in the library that is adjacent to the library.  He called the police and the man was charaged with open and gross lewdness.  bostonchannel.com

In Chicago's Northside library, a man was reported with looking at child pornography within the library.  Now, mostly he was looking at pornographic video games and cartoons, so maybe the pornography was meant to be for children instead of of children...  I dunno and do not want to speculate.  chicagotribune.com

So, forward that to your friends that think working at a library would be a cushy job.  Welcome to public service.

Money Lost in Yonkers Library

A library employee at the Yonkers library has admitted to stealing $164,000.  The now ex-employee faces prison time.

Look, we have all been there.  You are hanging out in the library, not helping people because that would be silly.  You read stories about libraries facing closure around the nation and you think, "I can do bad all by myself."  Plus, you really want that Battlestar boxset.  Do what you want/got to do.

But that was all a joke.  What this really proves is that libraries are just as susceptable to employees breaking bad than every other industry.  We might be bigger targets even, because we are like the nice guy in town that opens the door for you and you take his wallet while his hands are full.  Anyway, I hope this person gets what they deserve, be it punishment or help.

Yonkers library worker admits stealing $163582, faces prison - The Journal News | LoHud.com

Fancy Pants News: These People Be On the Nets for Books and Libraries

So I been ill for a day or so,
so I'll try to be funny all in one go.
Not trying to rhyme,
not all the time.
This is breaking down.
I feel like a clown.
So here's the news, this time I mean it.
Anybody got a peanut?

Singer lady Taylor Swift donated over 6,000 books to- I'ma let you finish I just need a cheap cameo.  Whine, whine, who's got wine?- the city of Reading, PA. cbsnews

A homeless man in the Evanston Public Library threw a chair through a wall after over a banning dispute for behavior. That'll fix it, hombre. Patch

Librarians turned defacement into an art show when play-write Joe Orton's artistic vandalism of library books was put on display.  Well, way to fix the problem.  Got a crazy notion to write your memoirs in library book bindings?  Hey, we may publish that. Guardian

Pace University has commented on shutting down the Henry Birnbaum Library due to bedbugs, saying, "Yep, we got bedbugs." gothamist

Self-published wunderkind author Amanda Hocking is moving into the world of graphic novels with Dynamite Entertainment.  Write on, ya crazy kid!  PublishersWeekly

Children's book illustrator Sophie Blackall has created a book based on Craigslist's "Missed Connections" section.  "You were in red, I had a gimp mask on.  We were on the subway and you really creeped me out by asking if I wanted to pose nude for the delight of children.  I still do." NYDailyNews

Toronto library staff have proposed to cut staff and hours in an effort to appease Mayor Rob Ford's requests that budgets be trimmed.  Next, Toronto police will buy their own bullets and gas and teachers will... hell, teachers got nothing either.  citytv