A Bob Dylan record has been returned to a library in Ohio 48 years overdue.
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Sara Phillips, manager of the University Heights Library, explained how a package containing Dylan's 'Self Portrait album arrived in the post recently.
She said: "I got a package in the mail from San Francisco that was record-shaped and - lo and behold! - it contained a record from our collection that was due back in June 1973."
The record had been checked out of the library by Howard Simon when he was a school pupil and he revealed that he had found the album in his personal collection and decided to return it.
He wrote: "As a recent retiree, I am taking the opportunity to turn my attention to some of the many vignettes of life that by dint of career and family have been neglected these many years.
"In that context, I am returning with this letter an overdue item (by my count, approximately 17,480 days overdue as of this writing)."