For months, Auckland City Library staff thought bored kids were playing games with them.
For months, Auckland City Library staff had been trying to figure out why books were disappearing and then reappearing under the shelves and hidden in different places all over the building.
It turns out they are being read by the city's homeless, people who cannot have a library card because
they don't have a home address. They admitted to stash the books away with a bookmark so they could make sure they'd find them again and could continue reading them the next day.
"A lot of our street community were wanting to put them underneath the couches or under book shelves and kind of hiding them in places," librarian Sean Taylor told TVNZ.
"And for a librarian it's really weird, we're like 'oh what's this book doing here?' and we've put it back."
The library thought maybe bored kids were playing games on them.
