Stories about "Lost and Found"
25 items (or 62, depending your count) in the Bates library’s Lost and Found on Nov. 11, 2024
Friday, November 15, 2024 12:54 pm
The sweetest lost item was a greeting card with the quote “Etre avec des gens qu'on aime cela suffit” (“Being with people you love, that’s enough”) from a grandfather to his Bates grandson in his first week on campus.
26 items (plus two from Commons) in the Bates library’s Lost and Found on June 26, 2024
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 12:38 pm
As the days get warmer, the learners at Bates get younger and older. And what they have in common with Bates students? They lose things.
42 items in the Bates library’s Lost and Found on Feb. 8, 2024
Friday, February 9, 2024 12:37 pm
Just how did a rabies dog tag from Andover, Mass., find its way into the Lost and Found cubby in Ladd Library?
Ladd Library Lost & Found: October 2023
Thursday, November 9, 2023 2:40 pm
As we were setting out items for this edition of Ladd Library Lost & Found, retired math professor Bonnie Shulman stopped by because a venerable Texas Instruments TI-84 Plus calculator caught her eye.
38 items in the Bates library’s lost and found on Jan. 11, 2023
Thursday, January 12, 2023 10:26 am
Tea, toothpase, and a formal bow tie: Unfound items awaiting their losers — hmm, that didn't sound right — on the first day of the winter semester here on campus.
19 items in the Bates library’s lost and found on Dec. 6, 2021
Wednesday, December 8, 2021 2:34 pm
It’s finals week, and we think students are foregoing routine tasks like…
18 items in the Bates library’s lost and found on Sept. 29, 2021
Wednesday, September 29, 2021 3:48 pm
A warm stretch of early fall weather here on campus might explain a couple things about the status of Ladd Library Lost and Found on Sept. 29.
19 items in the Library’s Lost and Found on May 10, 2021
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 5:51 pm
As we were setting out items for Library Lost and Found, Elliott Vahey ’23 stopped by. And pointed. “That’s my bike lock key!”
18 items in the Library’s Lost and Found on Dec. 17, 2020
Friday, December 18, 2020 11:30 am
Much has changed during the pandemic. What hasn't: Students still lose things in Ladd Library.
The case of the missing buds in the Library’s Lost & Found, March 11, 2020
Wednesday, March 11, 2020 1:49 pm
“I think I’m on the phone with someone’s mom,” said a wide-eyed Jaimin Keliihoomalu ’21 of Kapolei, Hawaii, thus beginning the case of the lost Bluetooth ear buds.