Meanwhile, in an Australian library…

This Library Book Was 150 Years Overdue. Fortunately for the Man Who Just Returned It, Librarians Won't Be Enforcing a $20,000 Late Fee smithsonianmag.com

A copy of "The Antiquities of Athens" checked out in the 1870s has just come back to the library it vanished from, roughly 150 years late. At the old daily rate the fine would run past $20,000; staff are waiving it and calling the return a redemption.